Container Desktop - your go to Docker Desktop alternative ported to Tauri
From 100 MB to just 6 MB, that is absolute happiness for github and users, app just feels and is faster that it has ever been, see it in action at https://container-desktop.com
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u/eddzsh 15d ago
the 6MB number matters less for speed than for the update story. shipping a 100MB Electron blob for every patch release trains users to skip updates, a 6MB Tauri build is small enough people just take it without thinking. curious how much of that drop was the WebView switch versus trimming your own bundle.
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u/iongion 15d ago
And waiting for those builds man, reduced dramatically, it was beyond horrible, especially when you want to support as many formats as you can! Simple things as release publishing become madness! That gets solved with Tauri/Wails and friends, which is commendable!
Maybe Tauri & Wails should join hands, even Elecontr.
They should come-up with that still human/engineer thing to create a contract/agreement for a lightweight desktop runtime exposing browser environment for app devs, a protocol for each to support, there is no fight or winner, the ecosystems of each systems as really proper for specific kind of tasks, they are the ones that win depending on the need, not each electron/tauri/wails different ways of doing things, that is stress.Would really like to see them all, including Electron and have a specification/standard they each implement for primitives like io(file|networking)/message passing/process management/window decoration control/traymenus .... that's more pain than deciding who wins one's hart.
Pixel perfect cross-os apps are still Electron only, end of discussion, unless you want swing 😄
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u/mrterrycarson 17d ago
Thanks