web-view

We don’t necessarily use Tauri… Tauri has a library called wry that’s basically a more maintained fork of the Rust web-view library. https://github.com/Boscop/web-view We are great friends with Tauri but I think people misunderstand our architecture and philosophy just because we use one of their maintained libraries. We’ve been working on a native HTML/CSS library for a while called blitz which is reaching stability soon. https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz

I did some testing using webview (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view) which is used by Tauri if I'm not mistaken. On Linux this uses webkitgtk, and it used a total of around 100 MB. That's not that good, but certainly better compared to Electron.

Yes, here's the magic sauce: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view It creates Rust bindings to WKWebView on macOS, Windows::Web::UI on Windows, and haven't looked at Linux yet.

I've started using the web-view project (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view), with good results. Instead of embedding a browser, it uses the system's webview (Safari on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10).

zserge’s webview has been adopted by a bunch of maintainers who made Rust bindings for it. They have forked webview to continue maintaining it, and are now gradually rewriting it in Rust. https://github.com/Boscop/web-view Made on top of that is Tauri, a cross-platform webview-based app just like WebWindow. The key differentiator being that they are actually committed to continuous development as they’re trying to get established as an open source company. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

Your idea is not bad. In fact it has been done multiple times already. https://github.com/zserge/webview https://github.com/Boscop/web-view and so on

Web-View (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view) and Tether (https://github.com/quadrupleslap/tether/) are two examples of what you're looking for. Web-View is built for Go, but has bindings for several other languages.

The strategies being employed here look similar to those of xi (CRDTs for multithreaded buffer representation) and neovim (separable backend and frontend). This is definitely a project I'll be keeping my eye on. Another thing that's interesting is that if they're targeting a web-embedded editor (mentioned as a goal), they could possibly reduce the need for a full Electron install, possibly using the Rust web-view bindings[1] to link with the system web engine. [1]: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view