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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components (www.windowslatest.com)
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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Tauri is the way to go ; so that every app doesn't each embed another web browser that makes for 90% of the file size.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Tauri doesn't automatically make apps perform good. Easy and common pitfalls still can make it go to a crawl just like electron.
Yaak is an example of a tauri app that performs horribly, and that can't reach a satisfactory 30fps on modern hardware. The issue is within how tauri interacts with the js world and syncs state.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is the Rust backend mandatory?

[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In Tauri, the rust backend is the glue between web/js and OS functions. Yet you don't need to do any rust code, it's delivered ready.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If your app interfaces with the OS, like most apps would (reading a file, managing the window, etc), then you would be writing rust, no?

[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's say you are a webdeveloper trying to package your js app into a executable.

Tauri makes it so that it embeds your js into a rust base, and if you need to interact with the os, you have a Tauri JS API which calls predefined rust functions embedded in the executable.

You can literally never write rust code while using tauri.

But they givr you the choice, since rust is faster than compiled js, you also can create rust functions which you then call from your js code.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Cool, thank you for the knowledge!

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Of course all must rust, return to the oxide!