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Tauri’s next big move (Interview)

Oct 5, 2023

Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri, catches us up on Tauri 1.5, CrabNebula, Electron vs Tauri, UI with Tauri, and surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser.

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Quick takeaways

Towery 1.5 focuses on small bundle sizes and security, offering a similar experience to Electron and Capacitor.

Developers using Towery need to shift their mindset and move heavy lifting to the Rust side for more optimized solutions.

Crab Nebula aims to fund Towery's research and development efforts, with the goal of empowering citizen developers and solving the signing problem in software development.

Deep dives

Towery 1.5 Release and Mobile Support

The podcast episode discusses the recent release of Towery 1.5 and the introduction of mobile support. Towery, a community of developers building tools for app development, focuses on small bundle sizes and security. Towery aims to offer a similar experience to Electron and Capacitor but with a special emphasis on security and smaller bundle sizes. The team reported successful usage of Towery in various applications, including dev tools, games, and communication tools. Additionally, they highlighted the adoption of Towery in stealth projects, with closed-source apps being developed for monetization purposes.

Introduction

2min

Daniel Thompson from Tauri discusses upcoming release and focus on bundle size and performance

3min

Progress and Adoption of Tauri

22min

Sponsorship by .Tech Domains and Crab Nebula's Vision for the Tower Ecosystem

3min

Building a Browser with Tauri: Challenges and Collaboration

15min

Importance of Privacy and Security in Web Browsers

5min

Building a People-Centric Browser and Comparing Tauri and Electron

18min

Excitement for an Open Source Privacy-Focused Web Browser and Upcoming Episode Preview

2min

This week we’re joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It’s been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts towards Tauri 1.5 (which just released), the launch of CrabNebula and how they’re the people pushing the Tauri ecosystem forward and building on top of it, the state of Electron vs Tauri, and UI with Tauri. He even surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser.

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Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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