I wanted to ship a desktop version of a CLI tool I had written in Go. Three mainstream options in 2026: Electron, Tauri, or native bindings via Fyne, Gio, or Qt. I tried the first two.

Here are the five things that pushed me toward writing my own framework instead. None of this is a hit piece on Electron or Tauri. Both are mature, both have real advantages. But the issues below kept stacking, and