Tauri vs Electron

Look into Tauri, it uses the web view of the host OS rather than Electron

that's close but it uses Tauri, which maybe lighter than electron but we're still running an instance of a web browser/web view

Maybe check out Tauri thenhttps://tauri.studio/en/

I haven't gotten around to trying Tauri, but I've meant to. Perhaps you'll find it interesting?https://tauri.studio/If memory serves, it reuses the OS default web view and any "backend" or system things are done in Rust.

Any plans to use tauri? That way you can use the native os web view, plus cut the overhead of electron

https://tauri.app/it is a wrapper around underlying os webview, basically you load your apps js/page in that webview, if you want to do more native things then you can communicate with that app with ipc (probably tauri_sdk_thing that wraps that ipc )kinda like electron but donot have to ship chromium browser so less ram usage/ binary sizealso since it is a warapper around webview not a lib_chrome_lib

Electron uses chrome everywhere, Tauri uses the system webview which is very different and vastly inferior.

Check out Tauri it is much an smaller and faster than electron.

I think it's less an Electron and more a Tauri/Sciter competitor (webview wrapper rather than browser engine)

This is totally different use case, you may prefer GTK or Qt if you know it, tauri is about giving the power to web devs to compete with Qt devs.