cef-rs

Tauri's cef-rs is indeed quite good. I think it's available, ready, works: it's just that there aren't many folks using Tauri and only a fraction of them are aware/interested in exploring further. https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs Huge fan, this should definitely be the default. The user experience is incomparable. One thing I'd like to verify: can the OS effectively use shared mem for cef across multiple different cef-rs apps? I really hope so. In this time of RAM being scarce, this optimization could be such a benefit.

Really hoping tauri-cef doesn't have such massive massive downsides, hoping it still can be a shared library & not bundled. https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

I have no idea about timeline, progress, or suitability, but IIUC the Tauri folks are exploring integration with Chromium Embedded Framework: https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/14963#issuecommen... and following comments https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues?q=CEF

There does appear to be progress on making CEF an option. https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

This is my actual complain with Electron. And with modern programming languages like Go and Rust. Static compilation is such a grevious waste of memory & caches. There's Tauri, which does use a dynamic loading approach. But the various browsers it uses are nowhere near as capable and featureful as chrome, which is so sad. I don't know when it got started but there is https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs now, using Chromium Embedded Framework, which is pleasantly modern & can share a binary too; rad.

Yeah, I switched to Linux and my single Tauri app was not cooperating. They do have an effort to use Chromium Embedded Framework for rendering the webview, it's potentially much more stable in Linux. [1] It is nowhere near finished but you can run the cefsimple example, and it rendered me a window in Wayland. CEF is also bundled in many distros, like Fedora 43, so if it can be linked with Linux distros version of CEF, then the binary stays smaller. [1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs/tree/dev/examples