[sillyboi]

It would be great to see an up-to-date benchmark comparing modern cross-platform frameworks like Tauri, Flutter, Electron, React Native, and others.

Key metrics could include:

- Target bundle size

- Memory usage (RAM)

- Startup time

- CPU consumption under load

- Disk usage

- e.t.c.

Additionally, for frameworks like Tauri, it would be useful to include a WebView compatibility matrix, since the rendering behavior and performance can vary significantly depending on the WebView version used on each platform (e.g., macOS WKWebView vs. Windows WebView2, or Linux GTK WebKit). This divergence can affect both UI fidelity and performance, so capturing those differences in a visual format or table could help developers make more informed choices.

[taroth]

Here's a great comparison, updated two weeks ago. https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

Electron comes out looking competitive at runtime! IMO people over-fixate on disc space instead of runtime memory usage.

Memory Usage with a single window open (Release builds)

Windows (x64): 1. Electron: ≈93MB 2. NodeGui: ≈116MB 3. NW.JS: ≈131MB 4. Tauri: ≈154MB 5. Wails: ≈163MB 6. Neutralino: ≈282MB

MacOS (arm64): 1. NodeGui: ≈84MB 2. Wails: ≈85MB 3. Tauri: ≈86MB 4. Neutralino: ≈109MB 5. Electron: ≈121MB 6. NW.JS: ≈189MB

Linux (x64): 1. Tauri: ≈16MB 2. Electron: ≈70MB 3. Wails: ≈86MB 4. NodeGui: ≈109MB 5. NW.JS: ≈166MB 6. Neutralino: ≈402MB

[FINDarkside]

The benchmark also says Tauri takes 25s to launch on Linux and build of empty app takes over 4 minutes on Windows. Not sure if those numbers are really correct.

[Abishek_Muthian]

I wonder the reason Tauri does great in Linux and Electron is at its worst is because of Optimization or lack thereof respectively.

[rubymamis]

I've compared block editors (Notion - Electron, Appflowy - Flutter , etc) to my Qt C++ & QML block editor I've built in my blog post[1] using similar parameters. You might find it a good read.

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

[katrinarodri]

I'd love to see a comparison like this.