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        8-prime wrote 32 min ago:
        I really enjoyed building small apps with wails. 
        Even though people would prefer that we all used native UI frameworks,
        the DX is simply incomparable to that of web technologies.
        
        And for most apps using browser based rendering won't be an issue.
        People often underestimate how optimized mondern browsers really are.
        And because Chromium is not shipped the bundle size is managable.
        
        Not wanting to use JS on the backend I tried both Tauri and Wails and
        found the simplicity of Go to just work perfectly for my use-cases
       
        lifty wrote 54 min ago:
        Anyone knows how wails v3 is progressing and if they are actually
        adding mobile support?
       
          pylotlight wrote 5 min ago:
          beta soon tm. 
          mobile eventually with some PoCs around but nothing concrete yet
          sadly.
       
        hnlmorg wrote 1 hour 6 min ago:
        What’s not clear to me for either the readme nor their website, is
        how does this actually work?
        
        With Electron, for example, a stripped down Chromium is shipped. So
        what does the web view rendering with this package?
       
          adamors wrote 1 hour 1 min ago:
          The OS's native rendering engine, there's no embedded browser. Here's
          a more detailed writeup
          
   URI    [1]: https://wails.io/docs/howdoesitwork
       
        Exoristos wrote 1 hour 37 min ago:
        The lengths we will go to avoid writing a proper desktop application.
       
          mock-possum wrote 49 min ago:
          But I already know how to write a web app, I don’t know how to
          write a desktop app. It’s faster to just write and wrap a web app,
          and as far as most people can tell, it works just fine.
          
          Ya gotta be practical.
       
            adastra22 wrote 38 min ago:
            It's a strange world that I live in now.
       
          conceptme wrote 1 hour 18 min ago:
          because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as
          well as the web
       
            lloydatkinson wrote 9 min ago:
            My cross platform application written in C#/.NET and Avalonia
            strongly disagrees with this crazy assertion.
            
            I can also think of QT and GTK for other languages too.
       
            adastra22 wrote 37 min ago:
            There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come
            to mind.
       
              mono442 wrote 20 min ago:
              I wouldn't exactly call Flutter native. It uses its own rendering
              engine and doesn't necessarily behave like operating system
              native controls. It is not really different from using electron.
       
            robert_dipaolo wrote 40 min ago:
            What about QT? I've used that in the past and it's really good for
            native apps.
       
            raffraffraff wrote 58 min ago:
            Not just UI. I just wrote a KDE Plasma 6 widget for
            systemd-networkd / networkd and it was a nightmare.
       
              kosolam wrote 50 min ago:
              Why? Give more details please
       
       
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