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So this is basically "Kind of like Electron, but with reasonable resource consumption and performance"? An Electron competitor?

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Yes, here's the magic sauce: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view

It creates Rust bindings to WKWebView on macOS, Windows::Web::UI on Windows, and haven't looked at Linux yet.

It looks like they've moved things around, but as I understand it the Rust bindings C/C++ code is derived from https://github.com/webview/webview/ which uses WebKitGTK

Ah ok. I just followed the repository link from https://libraries.io/cargo/tauri-web-view which I saw in the Cargo file. How did you find that?

I've been following the webview project for a few months. It works for me to avoid Electron, and is pretty interesting on the whole I think

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