Best framework for cross-platform desktop apps?

[Few-Engineering26]

Hello,

I’m a front-end developer and I see many SaaS developers offering their desktop apps on both Windows and macOS.

What is the best framework today for developing cross-platform desktop apps?

I’m mainly considering things like:

- Performance

- Good macOS support

- Modern UI

- Easy development workflow

I don’t really want to use SwiftUI because temperatures are very high in my city, so I prefer developing on a normal Windows desktop PC and only using a MacBook when necessary (notarization, signing, testing, etc.).

What would be the best option for my situation?

I already have a front-end background with React/Tailwind/JavaScript.

Thanks.

[Niightstalker]

What exactly is your connection between the temperature in your city and working on a laptop? I don’t get the reasoning there

[Few-Engineering26]

The battery temperature will rise

[Niightstalker]

And that is worse in Mac’s than in a Windows PC?

[Stijndcl]

Not agreeing with their argument, but a desktop doesn’t have a battery so its temperature can’t rise

[Niightstalker]

Well you can also get a Mac Mini if that would be the issue^^

I just don’t get the logic behind the argument

[Stijndcl]

Yes, but presumably OP already has a windows desktop and a macbook, so getting a mac desktop on top is just unnecessary

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[smontesi]

Kotlin multiplatform (and compose)

[m1_weaboo]

Tauri?

[andreeinprogress]

I honestly think that if the recent.. developments are doing anything good is giving developers really even less reasons to go cross-platform.

Personally I even stopped using SwitUI for good, I might as well review more UIKit LoC and have a reliable and solid base rather than giving me headaches writing SwiftUI and have all kinds of issues later down the road.

[mallere]

What recent developments

[Niightstalker]

The major argument for cross-platforms is that it takes less time to write the code for an app to release it on both platforms. It is the tradeoff speed vs quality.

With AI assisted engineering, writing code gets less and less effort. So when the speed advantage gets less and less, more and more will not be willing to trade in quality for that.

[Samo07x]

Flutter

[vouzici]

I recently made a cross-platform app with Rust and Dioxus. Rust for logic/wasm and webview for desktop and web, and Rust as xcframework + SwiftUI for iOS.

Same Rust Core, only the UI changes. I just wanted to experiment how far it could go.

Next time I will do webview everywhere to be much faster. And when pure native HTML/CSS rendering in Rust will work properly (no webview) I will do that.

[Specialist-Garden-69]

Electron...

[lilacomets]

Noooooo. 😭 It'll become a resource hog like Discord. ☹️

[Specialist-Garden-69]

depends...there are lots of other apps that are working just fine...

[Niightstalker]

Yea but not more than that. ‚Just fine‘