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Jul 9, 202624 min read
Building ZeroWhats: Rust, Tauri, and the Case Against Bundling a Browser
The technical story behind ZeroWhats, a privacy-first WhatsApp Web desktop client: why Tauri's wry and an OS-picked webview beat Servo, Gecko, CEF, and Electron; how it stacks up against Karere, ZapZap, and Ferdium; the capability-scoped security model; real resource numbers pulled from the actual release artifacts; and an honest account of where AI helped, and where it didn't.