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h4ch1 • today at 5:17 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> Use the system WebView for lightweight apps, or bundle Chromium via CEF

so basically a vibe coded Tauri in zig? I don't like calling webview dependent applications "native desktop apps".

Native desktop apps means using the OS primitives and directives to draw the UI imo; WinForms, SwiftUI, and their ilk.

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delta_p_delta_x • today at 11:31 AM

Tiny nitpick: Windows Forms wraps the Windows API; the function call is `CreateWindowEx`[1].

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/27e7cb2e5043780dd75e...

thayne • today at 5:33 AM

Maybe it's called zero native because that is how native it is.

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kroaton • today at 11:25 AM

If Tauri ever gets proper webgpu support, that'll be the Electron killer.