wry

Yup, came here to say this. After reading the article, it became abundantly clear that the author doesn’t support Linux and most of the article is just a summary of the common Tauri talking points that are out of date. To add data to this - Tauri is looking to allow embedding chromium as an option because the creator of Tauri acknowledged that it doesn’t work well on Linux. To the point where if Linux is a serious target, they don’t recommend Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064#issuecomment-2... The upstream projects aren’t in a place to support this yet so this feature didn’t make it into Tauri v2. I’ve been tracking this for a long time and hope that they will make it possible in v3.

In my experience with Tauri, it's pretty good on Windows, but not so much on other platforms, especially Linux. The decision to target different browser engines on each operating system means you still have to deal with a bunch of different OS-specific bugs. For Windows you're dealing with Edge (so Chromium), on macOS you have Safari, and on Linux you have WebKitGTK. WebKitGTK has honestly abysmal performance, and you're missing a lot of modern standards. The Tauri devs are looking at bundling a Chromium browser with it to deal with that, but that's still some time off, and leads to the same issue Electron has, where you have large bloated applications. https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064

Wait - there's system webviews? On Mac, Windows, and Linux? Edit: It looks like Tauri uses the following platform webview features. https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry?tab=readme-ov-file#platfor...

Optionally bundling would help in situations where the OS's native webview has degraded performance https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064

Costa here, one of Hopp builders. We chose to go native with Rust instead of just using the screen-sharing provided from Webkit for a few reasons: 1. Granular access to OS APIs. For example on MacOS you can select applications that you want to exclude from screen-sharing, which we know we want to use in the future. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screencapturekit/c... 2. Being able to tweak the WebRTC client. In our case we patch libwebrtc for minor bugs, and tweak parameters to allow lower latency in video streaming 3. This: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/85