Denjell here from the founding team of Tauri. Thanks for reaching out directly, and I just wanted to state for the HN record, that we are going to be having a board discussion surrounding the unpleasant event raised here, and will make a public statement very soon.
That said, on a personal note, I am quite sorry this happened. We do support and uphold our Code of Conduct, and this is not an appropriate response and the community tone we want to nurture.
We actually had this at an earlier stage during the alpha, but got so caught up in the alpha that we just plain forgot to put the apps for mac, win and linux back up there. We'll try to get that done this weekend. We have a full "API Explorer" app that we built...
Like I wrote in another response, we are due for a landing page revamp, and we'll be sure to make a "nothing but the facts" hero for people like yourself who are concerned that their time is being wasted.
Maybe we need to be more clear about how nodejs CAN be used in the construction of a Tauri app, and that it is neither a requirement to make a Tauri app nor a component that is shipped with a Tauri app.
I find it interesting that many people hold so tightly onto the "it is not native unless it is written entirely in %my_favorite_language%". I think a little controversy is good, but what the heck does native mean anymore? Wasn't it really invented as a kind of "shaming" because front-end developers were never considered "real programmers" and when hybrid apps came out some folks felt the need to line their pockets with this differentiation?
Don't get me wrong, I am very well acquainted with the tragedies of JS - and the propensity of amateurs to just "do it all" in a single-threaded webrenderer. In fact, I think that this is why most of the first and second generation "web-apps" built on cordova and electron were such poor performers.
But nevertheless, what we are trying to do with Tauri is to open up the boundaries between development communities and leverage the particular strengths of each of them. So if you don't feel Tauri is "native" enough, then maybe you are missing the point.
Denjell here from the founding team of Tauri. Thanks for reaching out directly, and I just wanted to state for the HN record, that we are going to be having a board discussion surrounding the unpleasant event raised here, and will make a public statement very soon.
That said, on a personal note, I am quite sorry this happened. We do support and uphold our Code of Conduct, and this is not an appropriate response and the community tone we want to nurture.