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Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by logankeenan »

yojo wrote: post #14

I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…

Do you mean the actual rendering of html/css when you say rendering differences? Or are you referring more to differences in JS support?

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by krisknez »

yojo wrote: post #14

I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…

I am a web developer and haven't used Tauri or Electron much yet.

I am wondering why rendering differences between different platforms are such an issue? When building web apps, you face the same challenges, so I would assume it wouldn't be much different.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by correa_brian »

mentos wrote: post #23

Just curious did you guys give any thought to writing the core processing work in a separate Rust solution that your Electron app could call into?

We considered it and decided all the wrangling wasn't worth it. Briefly also thought about adding in a python process to interact with our ML models, but figured it was worth streamlining this all into a single language/framework vs. creating frankenstein's monster.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by katrinarodri »

yojo wrote: post #14

I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…

We actually haven't rolled out cross platform support yet with the Tauri version, so we will see how that goes. Our UI needs are simple, luckily. What kind of rendering differences were you seeing with Tauri? Was there one platform that worked the best/worst for your app? We'd love to support Windows next.

With the Electron version of the app, we had issues running our bundled binaries on Macs with Intel chip. That caused us so many headaches that we decided for the rebuild on Tauri that we wanted to focus on one platform first (Macs with Apple chip) before supporting other platforms.

We went with Tauri 1.4 and no issues so far. Will have to check out the docs for 2.0 migration and see what that looks like.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by TheMiddleMan »

Very 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 adding a demo and contact info.

Otherwise, the app is looking solid. This seems like a great use of AI.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by correa_brian »

TheMiddleMan wrote: post #37

Very 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…

Thanks for the feedback! Will get a demo video and contact info up shortly.

De-duplicating images is on our roadmap. Shoot me your contact info at hello@desktopdocs.com. Would love to see if we can help.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by mort96 »

yojo wrote: post #14

I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…

Dealing with the rendering differences isn't any more difficult with Tauri than it is when making a normal web app, is it?

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Post by zalebz »

I'm neither a Mac uset nor is our team exploring a Rust rewrite ... however I appreciate this post. This is what I hope for from "Show HN", a just long enough summary of technical tradeoffs required to solve a real-world problem for a relatable small business (admittedly that part is an assumption). Thank you for sharing your experience.
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