?? how is tauri a response to electron criticism? Imho the main criticism of electron is a criticism of using a webview for a desktop application where you could've used something far more simple. An alternative which would make electron critics be happy would be more like imgui or bindings to plateform native ui toolkits, but definitely not some other html ui framework.
Oh you're right. I was thinking Tauri was a cross-platform native UI kit. Imgui seems interesting but given it requires C++ knowledge that introduces all sorts of lifecycle issues regarding memory safety, etc, which makes it even more intimidating to newer SWEs.
ImGui does have a bunch of wrappers in different languages. [1]
That said, native-ish interface would feel better IMO. I always appreciate applications that “feel native”. Qt and Python's Toga [2] are a couple libraries that pop up in my mind.
