Why did you bundle Redis and not use one of the many key value libraries available for Rust (or even sqlite)?
Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
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Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard good things about Flutter! We briefly considered it but just opted for Tauri out of preference.
You shall hear also about dark side of Flutter. It reimplements the whole UI rendering layer and UI components, so you lose all the flexibility, accessibility etc. of native components. On the other hand with Tauri or React Native you get browser or native OS components.
dont like the sound of reimplementing the whole UI components....
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#103It might be a good idea to remove 'One-time purchase • No subscription' from the landing page, as the pricing page instead says 'One year of updates for $99'.
It’s normal for one-time purchases to come with a limit on updates (for desktop applications). A subscription would mean that you can’t continue using the functionality after the subscription is cancelled/expires, but you can continue to use a one-time purchase forever.
One criticism of mobile app stores is that they don’t provide the option of paid major updates, and thereby strongly push adopting a subscription model.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#104what vision/llm model you use???
For now we're using CLIP. We've also done testing with Siglip and Gemma for a full-blown vision model.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#105It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that was never designed properly, let alone for modern UI apps.
Flutter would be much better choice for such a desktop app, for example.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#106As a C++ developer I shrug at those size numbers, but I’m glad you are a happy with Rust.
As a rust developer, I do too! Those are not representative of rust GUI/3D etc desktop applications. I've made some pretty complicated stuff with 2D and 3D graphics, lots of functionality; expected size is 5-15Mb on Windows, and 10-25Mb on Linux. Less if you don't need 3D.
is there a UI framework production ready yet in rust??? because for Tauri at least you can use JS which is fine
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#107> TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. Smart choice.
Haven't looked back since
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#108should just use flutter from the start
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#109Very nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay $99 just to see if it works with my (uniquely challenging) duplicate images. After realizing there was no demo I was looking for a way to contact you directly with a few sample images, but can't find contact information on the website. Consider…
For free/open source options I would suggest https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ and https://github.com/0x90d/videoduplicatefinder
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#110It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that was never designed properly, let alone for modern UI apps. Flutter would be much better choice for such a desktop app, for example.
How so?