> I really don’t care if my hello world UI is 60MB to download
lot of people cares, they may have a slow connection, must pay per MB and so on.
There is no reason why hello world UI should be 60MB.
lot of people cares, they may have a slow connection, must pay per MB and so on.
There is no reason why hello world UI should be 60MB.
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/3162
> FabianLars, 3 hours ago, Collaborator
> ...for example my somewhat simple app uses ~120MB
> But only ~5MB is the actual tauri/rust process, the rest is WebView2.
So, if 60MB is a large download, surely a simple app using 120MB of ram is pretty outrageous too?
> There is no reason why hello world UI should be 60MB.
Absolutely, but you can't have everything. Fast. Small. Doesn't use any memory. Easy to develop for. Free. Consistent cross platform behaviour.
You can't have them all.
So... the question isn't "is 60MB ok?"
The question is: What do you care about the most? Is it really the download size?
It's not the download size for me.
Maybe you are referring to Gtk/Qt vs. win32 etc. with their integrations in the operating system. I agree that they look and feel the best for their respective OS, but eventually require you maintain multiple unrelated codebases. It is understandable and necessary for this approach to die. A middle ground would be best, say, Qt support on all existing platforms. Or more likely, prettier browser defaults for standard elements like lists and tables, with browsers themselves respecting the underlying OS theme. Probably never gonna happen...
A 60MB download would have been fine.
Indeed, with the annoying habit of proprietary software to install "Download managers" that download the actual software, I would be happy for just a 60MB runtime for the actual program itself.
60MB, even today, is really big when you have to download it while boarding a train or with poor connectivity (even in rich countries, just being in a metallic building is enough for 60MB to be painful to download.
And 60MB would have been a couple of hours, not bad to wait for some software.
It wasn't prohibitive to do this.
Indeed, I seem to be back at square one, as downloading a AAA game for me once again takes about a day.
It was absolutely prohibitive for the average person with a shared line, and the direct comparison to shared line today is a metered connection. Even in the US it can be as much as $30 per gigabyte which would make that 60MB download cost $1.80.
To be short: if you can make your app less greedy - do it.
In some cultures we have a concept of "engineering conscience" (ru: "инженерная совесть"). Are we loosing all that?