Lots of their roadmap for 2021 is still undone. Something be to worry about?
Probably not worth worrying, but I also wouldn't expect to download Tauri-powered apps anytime soon.
Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
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Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#22At https://www.waiterio.com we use plain webviews for Android, iOS and macOS without any framework and Electron for Windows and Linux. The problem with frameworks is that once a year Apple make a change to their signature and it can break the framework for several weeks/months before a fix/hack around is found. By using native webviews you can quickly implement the change needed and get back online in days.
would this work for Windows and Linux too?
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be better to use Rust+Servo (no JS, or at least optional) IMO
>(no JS, or at least optional) IMO reply At this point why not focus on some actual GUI toolokit, like write a Qt clone in Rust, for real world apps we don't need all the CSS and HTML crap, you need simple layout, GUI components and an option WebView you can embed in the app if needed. Probably there is no commercial interest to pay professional developers with real experience to implement this.
People are doing that too. https://sixtyfps.io/ is basically a Qt clone in Rust, actually developed by previous Qt developers.
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be better to use Rust+Servo (no JS, or at least optional) IMO
>(no JS, or at least optional) IMO reply At this point why not focus on some actual GUI toolokit, like write a Qt clone in Rust, for real world apps we don't need all the CSS and HTML crap, you need simple layout, GUI components and an option WebView you can embed in the app if needed. Probably there is no commercial interest to pay professional developers with real experience to implement this.
I believe the interest is there, it's just not as easy as it seems: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2020/09/28/rust-2021....
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
"cross-platform compatibility" isn't guaranteed on the web either, yet somehow "cross-platform compatible" websites exist. It isn't a problem that's so difficult it requires wrapping a 60Mb runtime around every individual app instance.
Everyone is basically using Chrome or Safari nowadays - so WebKit. Very little incompatibilities to consider compared to writing something that works on different WebView implementations
WebKit and Blink have many significant differences, especially when it comes to supporting newer features. In terms of incompatibilities they're about as different as Gecko is from Blink, if not more so.
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
>(no JS, or at least optional) IMO reply At this point why not focus on some actual GUI toolokit, like write a Qt clone in Rust, for real world apps we don't need all the CSS and HTML crap, you need simple layout, GUI components and an option WebView you can embed in the app if needed. Probably there is no commercial interest to pay professional developers with real experience to implement this.
People are doing that too. https://sixtyfps.io/ is basically a Qt clone in Rust, actually developed by previous Qt developers.
I don't think "basically a Qt clone" is a fair framing, in both directions. (sixtyfps aims to cover things Qt doesn't, Qt does things sixtyfps doesn't and won't for a long time if at all)
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be better to use Rust+Servo (no JS, or at least optional) IMO
>(no JS, or at least optional) IMO reply At this point why not focus on some actual GUI toolokit, like write a Qt clone in Rust, for real world apps we don't need all the CSS and HTML crap, you need simple layout, GUI components and an option WebView you can embed in the app if needed. Probably there is no commercial interest to pay professional developers with real experience to implement this.
egui is a really fantastic Rust GUI toolkit, best I've used in any language
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be better to use Rust+Servo (no JS, or at least optional) IMO
>(no JS, or at least optional) IMO reply At this point why not focus on some actual GUI toolokit, like write a Qt clone in Rust, for real world apps we don't need all the CSS and HTML crap, you need simple layout, GUI components and an option WebView you can embed in the app if needed. Probably there is no commercial interest to pay professional developers with real experience to implement this.
HTML and CSS, while not perfect, are still the best tools I've found to create a pleasant UI. Other libraries like Qt do work, but it's more difficult to get things looking exactly how you want them to look.
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#29I'm using electron for https://www.monsterwriter.app/ and i'm looking for a lightweight alternative since a while. This seems to be a good fit. I guess when you can reduce the api calls to bindings (accessing filesystem, network, etc.) cross platform compatibility should not be a problem.
Have you tried Sciter?
Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
#30Imagine trying to use app built with this in five to ten years that not recently updated or maintained, very scary.
Care to elaborate why that would be more problematic than any other app that hasn't been updated or maintained in that period of time?