Natyv

The polyglot desktop framework leveraging Zig and WebAssembly for memory efficient, secure native desktop apps!

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

Yesterday, we shipped v0.2.0 with drawing primitives. Here’s what that looks like in practice!

Write the canvas, build, and render. Add twelve more lines, rebuild, and render again.

~40 lines of Go painting a native window! No Chromium, No system WebView!

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

We’re happy to announce Natyv v0.2.0 is now out!!

Natyv lets you build native desktop apps where your logic runs as a sandboxed WASM guest. There's no bundled browser and no WebView, and today you write it in Go - 🧵

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

Upgrade with brew upgrade natyv.
Full release notes: https://t.co/2BBJJZpPwH

If you're building desktop tools and tired of shipping Chromium, we'd love for you to try it and tell us what breaks.

#opensource #golang #webassembly #desktopapps #security

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

We’re happy to announce Natyv v0.2.0 is now out!!

Natyv lets you build native desktop apps where your logic runs as a sandboxed WASM guest. There's no bundled browser and no WebView, and today you write it in Go - 🧵

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

⚡ Leaner installs
brew install natyv used to download 378 MB of dependencies it never used. It now downloads none. natyv reaches a window in about 115–135 ms, and NATYV_STARTUP_TRACE=1 shows where each millisecond goes. -

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

@jamonholmgren hi!! we also have a desktop framework in beta at the moment, if you’d like to check it out to compare!! you can find our work at https://t.co/5MBJCYzYbJ, let us know what you think!!☺️

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

Have you ever wondered what UI frameworks local AI desktop apps actually ship? Our founder actually researched this topic with five examples and wrote up a piece about her findings!

https://t.co/xOjLJJZQ7s

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

Additionally, Natyv is live on Product Hunt today. A native desktop runtime with no bundled browser, no Electron-sized memory tax. Would love your feedback: https://t.co/iNsRekbWAM

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

This morning, we’d like to share a write up our founder wrote about tackling the issue of originally being at ~70-90% CPU usage at idle and how she went about not only finding this issue, but root causing it and implementing a fix! https://t.co/5G73QCQ4ST

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

@benapatton ☺️🫶🏻 thanks Ben!

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

@drazendotlic Thank you so much!! Please let us know if you have any feedback, questions, or comments! We’d be more than happy to collaborate on this!!

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

Today, we're announcing the initial beta release of Natyv: a native
desktop app runtime with no bundled browser.

Electron apps can idle at 300MB+ of RAM doing nothing. We wanted to know
if that's actually necessary. 🧵

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

We’d really appreciate it if you could check it out, give feedback, share it around, and show off what you build with it!!

[Natyv @NatyvFramework]

macOS/Linux only today (brew tap natyv-io/natyv && brew install natyv),
cross-compiles to Windows/Linux, verified in real VMs. Go SDK live on
https://t.co/CU7nTTZsrl. It's early (v0.1.0) and we mean it:

https://t.co/5MBJCYzYbJ