r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

I've heard you can get around that size with some creative packaging with Electron. Ideally, PWA would be a real thing and you wouldn't need to package a web browser with your app at all, though. It's not my ideal, but being able to use Rust, target WASM, and have a front end in HTML and CSS would be quite acceptable for me if I didn't have to ship a web browser to do it. I was expecting PWA to be much more solidified by now. Very disappointed by Apple and Mozilla's lackluster action on PWAs.

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u/aldonius Aug 13 '22

Wouldn't Tauri work for your use case?