Reading up on cross-platform
6 deep · digging since jan 22
- Electrobun - Build ultra fast, tiny, cross-platform desktop apps
Electrobun 2.0 lets developers build tiny, cross‑platform desktop apps in TypeScript, Zig, Rust, Go, or Odin, with sub‑megabyte helloworlds and built‑in update, signing, and GPU UI features.
- tinyjs — desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux in ~6 MB
tinyjs enables building macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop apps using JavaScript with a txiki.js backend and native webview, shipping about 6 MB without Electron.
- Native all the way, until you need text
Web views like Electron outperform native text frameworks (TextKit 2) for complex Markdown rendering, despite size overhead, due to resource investment and cross-platform convenience.
- Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
LocalSend is a free, open-source tool that shares files with nearby devices over a local network without internet.
- Skip is now free and open source
Skip, a tool for building cross-platform mobile apps with SwiftUI, is now free and open source, though it requires macOS and at least 32GB of RAM for development.