The problem with Electron I built the first version of LazyWords in Electron. It worked....
The problem with Electron
I built the first version of LazyWords in Electron. It worked. It also shipped a 120MB installer for an app whose entire job is showing a small floating flashcard every few minutes.
That felt wrong. So I rewrote it in Tauri v2.
Final result: 8MB installer, same functionality, noticeably less RAM. But the migration wasn't smooth — here's what actually bit me.
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