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est 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3

So why can't Python call system WebView directly? Is passing through layers of Rust really needed here?

Retr0id 9 months ago | [–]

Abstractions are rarely "necessary" in a strict sense but since Tauri already solves the problem of doing cross-platform webviews, why not reuse that work?

akshayKMR 9 months ago | [–]

I've used pywebview in the past ~2017. Works well.

https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview

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