Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta

Post by fabiospampinato » Fri, May 14, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #116

fabiospampinato wrote: post #68

As a developer of an Electron app to me a competing framework that doesn't bundle its own rendering engine doesn't make sense, why would I want to trade control over how my app is rendered for ~100MB of disk space? I might as well just ship a website at that point, almost everything that makes Electron appealing comes from shipping your own rendering engine.

It's about memory management more than it is binary size. Rust is notorious for being turbo-charged with every LLVM optimization on gods green earth, so much so that the actual syntax of the language is beholden to the opinion of the compiler. Either way, I see it as a great step in the right direction, and would be perfect for apps like Discord or Spotify.

Post by dang » Fri, May 14, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #42

I don't care about your YouTube videos, I don't care about your governance, I don't care about your book, tell me what it is in non-marketing speak and show me a screenshot on the front page and shut up about everything else. Tell me what it is, show me what it looks like, provide a "Hello, World!" API example for opening a window on the front page. Stop contributing to landing pages that jerk the consumer around.

Post by juancampa » Fri, May 14, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #100

Waterluvian wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

? Are you asking for them to make an entirely different product?

It's off-topic, but it would be nice for someone to make a really good GUI toolkit for Rust. Something that integrates with system APIs for copy-paste and stuff like that.

Post by andrewmcwatters » Fri, May 14, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #134

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #42

I don't care about your YouTube videos, I don't care about your governance, I don't care about your book, tell me what it is in non-marketing speak and show me a screenshot on the front page and shut up about everything else. Tell me what it is, show me what it looks like, provide a "Hello, World!" API example for opening a window on the front page. Stop contributing to landing pages that jerk the consumer around.

Please don't break the HN guidelines like this. Fulminating, fault-finding, blaming rants hit on everyone's indignation and attract upvotes, and when we end up being a site where this is the top comment on the top submission, and the whole place fills up with toxic fumes. This isn't the community any of us wants to have. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Post by monocasa » Fri, May 14, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

hatch_q wrote: post #131

pavlov wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's brand new iMacs with the M1 CPU only have 8 GB of RAM. If every little desktop widget loads its own browser engine, most of that RAM will be spent on redundant copies of Chromium. If your Electron app is something that you expect users to run almost exclusively, then no problem. If it's just another little client app for some service, please consider a solution that would reduce its memory footprint.

And with WebView, RAM will be spent on redundant copies (instances) of WebView.