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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

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131 points CharlesW | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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sshine ◴[21 Nov 24 01:31 UTC] No.42200114[source]▶
How do they manage the OS-specific stuff with pure TypeScript? How does it compare in benchmarks against Tauri for size and speed?
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1. c0wb0yc0d3r ◴[21 Nov 24 01:48 UTC] No.42200232[source]▶
I dug through it a tiny bit because I was curious as well. To me it looks like OS-specifics aren't dealt with in the project. It uses bun to run the TypeScript. From the getting started docs the project just opens a browser window for the UI. I didn't look to see if this meant the user's default browser or a bundled browser.
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2. yoav ◴[21 Nov 24 03:00 UTC] No.42200661[source]▶
Native bindings written in c/objc and a zig binary that bun spawns.