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Well, while Tauri is certainly nice, it's not quite what I imagine when I hear "native".

by ghrl 6mo ago

frizlab 6mo ago
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- ramon156 6mo ago
  What does this have to do with Tauri? Besides, that's apples to oranges. Zed has a lot more features, if you don't want that then Sublime is a better pick.
  - guessmyname 6mo ago
    > frizlab: […] while Zed is nice, Sublime is better. > ramon156: What does this have to do with Tauri? Not @OP but I imagine they are thinking: “because Zed is built on top of Tauri and Sublime Text is not.” Sublime Text’s user interface is built on top of a mix of (native) UI renderers for each major OS [1], mostly based on Google’s 2D graphics library: Skia https://skia.org/ https://skia.org/ . Recent versions (v3) go even lower: Vulkan and OpenGL https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerated-rendering https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat... EDIT: I stand corrected, Zed does not use Tauri (anymore?) but instead gpui ( https://www.gpui.rs https://www.gpui.rs ) as seen in their Cargo.toml file → https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L90-L99 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L...
    - h4ch1 6mo ago
      Doesn't zed use gpui?
    - amonith 6mo ago
      Wait, what, Zed is Tauri? How? One of their main things was that they implemented the UI layer completely from scratch using their own GPU-accelerated rendering engine. It's got none of that browser-type stuff.
tito777 6mo ago
But you're right that the UI layer is still HTML/CSS rendered in a webview. It's not SwiftUI or Win32. Tauri gets you closer to native than Electron, smaller binaries, lower memory, OS-level webview, but it's not the same as writing Cocoa or GTK directly. For what this project does (AI generating full apps), Tauri hits a good tradeoff: one codebase, all platforms, real system access, and the AI is much better at generating React than platform-specific UI frameworks. I tried to do the same with Swift it, fails meserably

Well, while Tauri is certainly nice, it's not quite what I imagine when I hear "native".

by ghrl 6mo ago

Well, while Tauri is certainly nice, it's not quite what I imagine when I hear "native".

frizlab 6mo ago

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ramon156 6mo ago
What does this have to do with Tauri? Besides, that's apples to oranges. Zed has a lot more features, if you don't want that then Sublime is a better pick.
- guessmyname 6mo ago
  > frizlab: […] while Zed is nice, Sublime is better. > ramon156: What does this have to do with Tauri? Not @OP but I imagine they are thinking: “because Zed is built on top of Tauri and Sublime Text is not.” Sublime Text’s user interface is built on top of a mix of (native) UI renderers for each major OS [1], mostly based on Google’s 2D graphics library: Skia https://skia.org/ https://skia.org/ . Recent versions (v3) go even lower: Vulkan and OpenGL https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerated-rendering https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat... EDIT: I stand corrected, Zed does not use Tauri (anymore?) but instead gpui ( https://www.gpui.rs https://www.gpui.rs ) as seen in their Cargo.toml file → https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L90-L99 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L...
  - h4ch1 6mo ago
    Doesn't zed use gpui?
  - amonith 6mo ago
    Wait, what, Zed is Tauri? How? One of their main things was that they implemented the UI layer completely from scratch using their own GPU-accelerated rendering engine. It's got none of that browser-type stuff.

tito777 6mo ago

But you're right that the UI layer is still HTML/CSS rendered in a webview. It's not SwiftUI or Win32. Tauri gets you closer to native than Electron, smaller binaries, lower memory, OS-level webview, but it's not the same as writing Cocoa or GTK directly. For what this project does (AI generating full apps), Tauri hits a good tradeoff: one codebase, all platforms, real system access, and the AI is much better at generating React than platform-specific UI frameworks. I tried to do the same with Swift it, fails meserably