Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?

7 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by dhruv3006

Item id: 49478014

8 Comments

ogoffart

43 minutes ago

There is Slint - https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/

- UI renders natively (without a browser)

- Slint uses a declarative UI that should be intuitive to use for developers / designers / agents.

- Can be interfaced from different languages such as Rust / JS / TS / Python

(disclaimer, I am working for Slint)

owentbrown

an hour ago

Yesterday was kicking the tires on https://helixnotes.com/, a Tauri app. It's really slick and performance is really good. Loads fast, opens quick, etc.

So, I see that as evidence that Tauri is really solid.

carloslfu

an hour ago

Tauri is solid, but after 10 years of navigating the space and shipping desktop apps. My best advice is JUST USE ELECTRON. I know! it hurts to ship a bloated shell, but it works like charm

onion2k

5 hours ago

Tauri, electrobun, React Native for Desktop, Flutter, actually building a proper native app... there's loads of alternatives.

I maintain a Tauri app. It's fine. I've not seen any reason to go back to Electron.

Ikryanov

4 hours ago

I don't think that it's a common thing. There are many alternatives like MoBrowser, Electrobun, Wails. The choice depends on the project requirements.

satvikpendem

3 hours ago

So many, Flutter being one, as well as Rust GUIs like egui, iced, Dioxus Native etc.

torutofu

5 hours ago

tauri if you still want a web ui, otherwise iced/egui and skip the browser stack

antoineMoPa

4 hours ago

egui is very neat indeed. With agentic coding, Rust UI dev is as easy as electron dev without the bloat. Electron was relevant when we had to manually code stuff.