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Why isn't there a way to make near-native desktop UIs that's similar in ease to browser and electron UIs?

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it seems ridiculous that we have to embed an entire browser, meant for internet web browsing, just to create a cross-platform UI with moderate ease.

Why are native or semi-native UI frameworks lagging so far behind? am I wrong in thinking this? are there easier, declarative frameworks for creating semi-native UIs on desktop that don’t look like windows 1998?

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charolastra@programming.dev
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Check out Tauri.app

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Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlOP
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I don’t understand exactly how this is different. Is “WebView” not still very similar to a browser?

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Turun@feddit.de
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Yes, but it’s shipped by the os, so the actual app install is way smaller.

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pycorax@lemmy.world
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I’m not too familiar with slinr or fybe but DearImGui seems like an odd one out here.

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Turun@feddit.de
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Why?

Rusts egui (heavily inspired by dear imgui) works very nicely on Linux, Mac and Windows.

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