All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I've shipped multiple Mac apps with Tauri v2. I evaluated Electron seriously before choosing Tauri. Here's what 6 months of actual development taught me — not benchmarks, actual experience. Bundle size: Tauri wins, obviously Electron bundles Chromium. Your app is 150MB before you write a line of code. Tauri uses the system WebView (WKWebView on macOS). My largest app is under 10MB as a DMG. For a paid app distributed outside the App Store, this matters. A 150MB download for a PDF tool is a hard sell. The Rust learning curve is real Electron lets you write everything in JavaScript. Tauri requires Rust for the backend. If you know Rust: Tauri is a joy. The type system catches errors before they reach users. The performance headroom is enormous. If you don't know Rust: budget 2-3 months of frustration before you're productive. The borrow checker will fight you on everything involving shared state between async tasks. I knew some Rust going in.…