Linux Dev Time

Linux Dev Time – Episode 144

Linux Dev Time

Show Notes

People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?

We mentioned Tauri and Wails.

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