Six Months With Tauri: The Benefits and the Bill
Why I chose Tauri, and what it cost me
In January I had to choose how to build Tabularis. Electron was the obvious option. Three native applications were the romantic option. Tauri looked like the compromise.
Six months and 64 releases later, I still think it was the right choice. But not for the reason usually printed at the top of Tauri comparison pages.
Yes, the Windows installer is 12 MB. This is nice. It is also the least interesting part.
The sentence that decided the architecture was this:
A database client is a systems program with a UI problem, not a web app with a database problem.
That sentence explains why I chose Tauri. It does not explain the bill. This post is about both.
The program behind the pixels
Below the data grid, Tabularis speaks MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite through SQLx. It opens SSH tunnels, asks the...
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