[HN Gopher] Electron vs. Tauri
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       Electron vs. Tauri
        
       Author : birdculture
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-11-28 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | aabhay wrote:
       | If they didn't have the nodejs dependency then the Tauri bundle
       | could be as small as 20mb.
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       | Another pro not mentioned is that native integrations (i.e. obj-c
       | on macos) are much easier to do since rust has great ffi
       | integration with other native libraries.
       | 
       | The biggest pro to electron is that it has extensive plugins that
       | are often widely used in production by large companies. But Tauri
       | is definitely winning and any new project should use Tauri no
       | matter what essentially.
        
       | dfabulich wrote:
       | > Lack of support for .appx and .msix bundles on Windows
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       | https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4818
       | 
       | Whoa, I had no idea about that. Tauri is _way_ less fully baked
       | than I realized.
       | 
       | The bug goes on to explain that Tauri apps can't have Windows
       | "package identity", which means that there's a bunch of Windows
       | APIs you simply can't use in Tauri, including the notifications
       | API.
       | 
       | Without package identity, IMO, Tauri isn't ready for primetime on
       | Windows.
        
         | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
         | Huh, I thought I'd seen notifications and app URI handlers in a
         | Tauri app. Maybe they were using a custom Wix builder and not
         | the Tauri template though.
        
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