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deno desktop is INSANELY thorough. I assumed it would be super basic but it's actually a real electron killer. Notifications, DMGs, support for bundled CEF (Electron style) and native WebView (Tauri style), Auto-updater, multi-window support, and on and on. @deno.land cooked so hard with this one.

Have you tried electrobun? Any idea how it compares?

@yoav.codes any thoughts on deno desktop, things electrobun does better?

Answered this on twitter a few weeks ago when the Deno team showed me what they were working on. I'm glad I'm inspiring people. Electrobun 2.0 brings the same modular innovation I shipped for the renderer (system, CEF, WGPU) to the main process enabling Deno, Bun, Node, Zig, Rust, and Go.

any update on the js runtime stuff? I think there's room in the market for something minimal

I just wrapped up a 3 month embedded product research engagement for Dash (next generation IDE built with Electrobun), once I get the Dash Alpha out, Electrobun 2.0 gets all my focus (new zig core is pretty solid already), then Cottontail (new tiny js runtime, modular, zig accelerated, big std lib).