> TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move.
Smart choice.
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
#92Given your destination was the Mac app, why not Swift/SwiftUI rather than Rust/Tauri? Just curious is all.
Thanks for checking it out. The goal is for Desktop Docs to be cross-platform. We've had a lot of requests for Windows support, so we chose Rust to set us up for an upcoming Windows version.
I know it’s probably still not ready for prime time, but I believe the arc browser team was building a windows runtime for swift bec they prefer to use swift everywhere.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#93what vision/llm model you use???
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#94At a previous company we maintained a desktop electron app for Windows and macOS. It was super bloated though and updates with Squirrel were a pain.
We kept the GUI as a web spa app (using Inferno) and wrote two small native apps with C# and Swift that would load a webview and other duties. App download size and memory consumption was reduced by like 90%. We also moved distribution and updates to the app stores of each platform.
It was a great decision.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
For sure. We've been prototyping embedding a vision model in desktop docs, but just needs more dev time to be stable. Went with CLIP for parity, but we are looking to upgrade soon. I tried Siglip and wasn't impressed. Do you know other open-source image embedding models you'd recommend?
nomic-embed-vision-1.5 ( https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-vision-v1.5 ) is alignable with nomic-embed-text-1.5 for multimodal retrieval and implements some more modern LLM improvements, although it doesn't solve some of the problems CLIP has. Given the importance to your business, it may be worthwhile into finetuning a modern native multimodal model like Gemma 3 to output aligned embeddings, albeit model s…
I love Gemma. I use it on LM studio and am working on getting it into Desktop Docs. Thats for the nomic link. I'll do some testing...
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#96i built an electron app for managing massive (millions) photo and video libraries. it took work and creativity (what technical problems dont) but its very performant. node is actually pretty good at io. that is to say electron itself wasnt your bottleneck, but rewriting in another language is pretext to write long form blog posts for seo and marketing purposes
Interesting, do you have any write up on the app? What does your app do?
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#97Isn't such app best implmented with some cross platform framework like flutter? It has support for all major desktop OSes and at leqast the examples run very smooth.
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.
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#98- "Try" on the main LP call to action implies there is an available trial but just leads to a buy page. You really should have a trial, even something like just 1 week.
- Fan of the perpetual fallback licensing. Though $99 is a high barrier but i'm guessing you are targeting more creators/studios vs a more general consumer target (would think more like $20-25 for general consumer).
- You mention performance in this post but not at all on the landing page. The 38 minute video in the minutes would be very important to know for many potential customers. Would want benchmarks on various machines and info like parallel task processing, impact of and requirements around vram, etc. I would want an insight into what processing hundreds to thousands of hours of video is going to look like.
- I am curious how (and shocked) that electron itself was somehow responsible for a processing bottleneck going from 10-14 minutes to 3 minutes. Wasn't electron just responsible for orchestrating work to CLIP and likely ffmpeg? How was so much overhead added?
- I built (but never released) a similar type media search tool but based on transcriptions in Electron and didn't run into many performance issues
- Usually a lot of the motivation for building in Electron in the first place (or Tauri) would be cross platform, why mac only (especially for something like bulk media processing where nvidia can shine)
- I too recently went down the path of hadn't coded in Swift in 10 years and also investigated Tauri. I opted for Swift (for a new app not a re-write of something) and it has been mostly a pleasure so far and a dramatic improvement compared to my last swift app from around 2014 or so)
- If the LP section about active users is true it sounds like you've already found some modest success (congrats). Did you already have relationships/audience around the studio/creator space? Would be interested to hear about the marketing
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#99I recently built an Electron app (http://dyad.sh/) and I looked at other options like Tauri, but Electron has such a mature ecosystem (e.g. https://www.electronforge.io/) that I was able to ship a cross-platform app in a couple weeks (Mac+Windows) and then adding Linux support was pretty trivial.
The only downside from my point of view is the large installer size for Electron apps, but it hasn't been a big issue for our users (because they will need to download quite a bit of other stuff like npm packages to actually build apps with dyad)
Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
#100Tauri isn't really fully cross-platform in the same way as Electron due to the issues with webkit-gtk, etc. though.
What kind of issues are those? We want to support Windows soon. With Electron we had some cross-platform issues where our bundled binaries wouldn't run reliably in different platforms (even when the binaries were bundled and loaded for those specific platforms).
Just rendering a grey screen on Nvidia - https://www.reddit.com/r/tauri/comments/16tzsi8/tauri_deskto...
It's probably okay on Windows though as the backend is different, but that's part of the problem.