alt Hacker NewsMaybe I'm an old fart, but "rendering engine" used to mean 3D graphics. This is actually a cross-platform UI toolkit? Or rather a web toolkit than can be deployed to desktop via Tauri?
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tuvix • today at 6:27 PM
You’re not alone I was assuming it was 3D graphics as well. Disappointed to see, according to other comments, it’s a wrapper around python bindings to Tauri
I thought so too at first. It is definitely something interfaced on top of Tauri[0] with some sort of 'server-side logic' framework[1]. But looking at Tauri's site, it is really hard to disentangle if PyWry is a binder about WRY[2] or not.
"OS-efficient cross-platform HTML-based UI toolkit" is a great technological thing, but neither PyWry and Tauri's sites make that clear, or meaningfully advertise what they do. Which is a shame, because there is myriad software which might benefit all to use this.
[0] Tauri is akin to Chromium, I think? https://tauri.app
[1] and also a rather large amount of LLM integration; the source for PyWry has a whole section for Claude bindings
[2] the Webview Rendering librarY (WRY) used in Tauri https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry