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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

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323 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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zephraph ◴[22 Nov 24 01:08 UTC] No.42210288[source]▶
This is awesome! I built a similar tool as an experiment while at Recurse: https://github.com/zephraph/webview. Didn’t really do any heavy lifting though, just reused some of Tauri’s crates. Does Bun run on the same process as the GUI binding? OSX steals the main thread when rendering a native window which made me lean towards separating the processes. Still wonder if there’s a better way.
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yoav ◴[22 Nov 24 02:44 UTC] No.42210696[source]▶
I’m using bun for the main process. Bun runs a zig binary which can call objc/c methods. So the “main native application thread” is technically the zig process.

Then there’s all kinds of fancy rpc between bun and zig and between bun and browser contexts.

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1. zephraph ◴[23 Nov 24 01:14 UTC] No.42218601[source]▶
Ah, cool, that’s essentially what I’m doing too. Rust binary does the system interactions. I’m just using a pretty simple json RPC over stdio though.