Every "Electron vs Tauri" article follows the same format: explain what each one is, list some pros and cons, leave you to map it onto your own project. That mapping step is where most teams get stuck.
The actual decision comes down to a small number of forks, in order:
Rendering consistency. Need pixel-perfect output on every OS? That rules out Tauri and Deno Desktop immediately, since both use the OS's own WebView instead of a bundled engine. Electron is the only one that guarantees identical rendering everywhere.
Native access depth. If rendering isn't a hard requirement, the next question is how deep you need to go into OS-level APIs. This is where the three frameworks actually diverge: Tauri needs Rust for anything beyond its built-in commands, Electron leans on Node.js modules, and Deno Desktop uses an FFI layer that keeps you in TypeScript.
Rust comfort or bundle size. Depending on the native-access branch, this becomes the tiebreaker.
Maturity tolerance. Deno Desktop shipped in Deno 2.9, so it hasn't had the years of hardening Electron and Tauri 2.0 have. That matters a lot for production-critical apps and not much for internal tools.
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