My opinion on the Tauri framework
I've always liked GUI, both desktop-based and browser-based before you needed five years of training on the latter. That's the reason I loved, and still love Vaadin: you can develop web UIs without writing a single line of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. ...
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Alex Mozaidze
Software and web developer with extreme passion for configuration.
Tauri makes it easy to port web apps to desktop without sacrificing much of the performance. It uses system's built-in webview rather than plain chromium, so there may be slight difference between platforms.
The sandboxing is kinda necessary, since you're still running a browser in the end, which can be easily exploited if done improperly. The explicit filesystem access ensures that even if it all goes haywire, only a restricted region of the filesystem endures potential damage, instead of an entire filesystem.