Ask HN: Best stack for building a desktop app?

• tauri

  472 78,065 9.8 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

  

• javafx-gradle-plugin

  78 345 5.0 Java

  Gradle plugin that makes it easy to work with JavaFX 11+ (by openjfx)

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• JetBrainsRuntime

  7 1,147 10.0 Java

  Runtime environment based on OpenJDK for running IntelliJ Platform-based products on Windows, macOS, and Linux

  

JetBrains have their tweaks to the JRE available: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

The major problems begin when you want to leverage the GPU or multimedia components in which case you would want something else.

• electrobun

  2 127 9.2 C

  Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript.

  

I got fed up with electron a few months ago and making steady progress building Electrobun.

You can think of it like Tauri but you just write typescript for the main and browser contexts. Under the hood it’s powered by bun and zig.

https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun

Still a ways to go (I’m currently porting a large app from electron to electrobun and filling in the api as I go) but check back in a couple months.

It’ll be (in my opinion) the best stack to build desktop apps.

• WDL

  1 405 8.9 C

  WDL (by Cockos) mirror (by justinfrankel)

Not a full blown UI kit but lots of cross platform goodies (C++)

https://www.cockos.com/wdl/

https://github.com/justinfrankel/WDL

WDL Virtual Window system:

    Allows the building of dynamic, complex UIs within OS hosted windows

• SaaSHub

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