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Experimental Tauri Verso Integration

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142 points stareatgoats | 3 comments | 29 Mar 25 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.635s | source
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shubhamjain ◴[01 Apr 25 11:02 UTC] No.43545314[source]▶
I’m a bit confused. I thought the main selling point of Tauri was that it uses the OS’s native WebView to create lighter apps compared to something like Electron. So why would I want to bundle a Servo or Verso? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Tauri?
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dist-epoch ◴[01 Apr 25 12:22 UTC] No.43545891[source]▶
> I thought the main selling point of Tauri was that it uses the OS’s native WebView to create lighter apps compared to something like Electron

It was a talking point for angry at clouds people.

It was never a selling point, because nobody cares how big apps are today. For a regular user with a 256/512 GB drive, even if they had 50 electron apps 1 GB each, it would not matter in the grand scheme of things.

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synergy20 ◴[01 Apr 25 12:28 UTC] No.43545943[source]▶
well,what about memory usage. storage is cheap indeed, but memory is limited still
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1. dist-epoch ◴[01 Apr 25 12:34 UTC] No.43546010[source]▶
From the 1 GB a typical Electron app uses, only about 300 MB are binaries which might be shared if they were a WebView.

So yes, using a WebView might decrease your memory usage by 30%, maybe 50% for small apps. Not a huge game changer, maybe it would make a 8 GB RAM laptop more usable.

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2. Fraterkes ◴[01 Apr 25 12:42 UTC] No.43546097[source]▶
You talk like that's not a big deal! What percentage of users do you think still spends a lot of time working on 8gb ram laptops? If it was more than 50% I wouldn't be surprised.

The lowest hanging fruit when it comes to societal good that you can do as a programmer is writing software that is also usable for people with less money for hardware. And a lot of us don't even bother

3. kbelder ◴[01 Apr 25 21:59 UTC] No.43551777[source]▶
The big gain is from replacing a 1 GB Electron app with a 50 MB native app. Tauri is an improvement, but not a transformative one.