I wanted to try tauri out, but i couldn't get the nix dev shell for it working. My suspicion was that they do something too magical with the build process.
Cool, is the core sales pitch still a lie on Linux? Yes? Lovely, no thanks then.
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The big appeal of Tauri is that you don't need to ship a webview with every app. On Linux, Tauri not only ships its own webview, it's also an old and fundamentally broken webview. So you get fast and small apps on every platform, but huge and slow apps on Linux.
I'm not saying it's their fault. It's just not something they're interested in fixing the right way and that's their choice. But the false advertising is entirely their fault.
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The big appeal of Tauri is that you don't need to ship a webview with every app. On Linux, Tauri not only ships its own webview, it's also an old and fundamentally broken webview. So you get fast and small apps on every platform, but huge and slow apps on Linux.
I'm not saying it's their fault. It's just not something they're interested in fixing the right way and that's their choice. But the false advertising is entirely their fault.