Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust

Post by jmaker » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:12 AM UTC

saghm wrote: post #130

MSFT_Edging wrote: post #67

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Its never fun finding the correct java version to get ghidra going on a new machine. I don't use java often enough to remember versioning differences between the official and openjdk. I never install the right one on the first try, always requires a trip to the ghidra docs. I must have gone through this 7 or 8 times in the last 5 years. Its also really rare for a desktop app written in java to look good. I'm sure its…

I thought openjdk is the "official" version of Java now (besides Java EE)?

Post by ohgodplsno » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:15 AM UTC

max_streese wrote: post #159

Is it just me or do others find the Electron bashing a little over the top as well? I mean VS Code, Discord, Slack and Obsidian are all in very widespread use and work perfectly fine for me. Are there alternatives to Electron that require less resources? Tauri seems to be proof that there are. But I think there is real value in large communities and backing. Electron seems to work perfectly fine to me for everyday us…

Post by meling » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:18 AM UTC

mdasen wrote: post #127

meling wrote: post #122

Unrelated question. Anyone know if it would be difficult to write a SwiftUI “compiler” to non-Mac architectures, including wasm? (I’m not a ui developer). I mean, I realize it is probably non-trivial, like most cross-platform ui, but I have been imagining that Apple would do this since they released it, so that their webapps could be written in SwiftUI instead of whatever they are doing now…

Yes, it would be difficult. Certainly not impossible, but difficult. Microsoft has their MAUI project (Multi-platform App UI). It lets you write programs in C# and compile for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. AvaloniaUI and Uno Platform are other C# options. Flutter exists for Dart. Compose Multiplatform exists for Kotlin. React Native exists. All that said, they all have drawbacks/issues. Flutter means ignoring the…

Post by crubier » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

ohgodplsno wrote: post #163

max_streese wrote: post #159

Is it just me or do others find the Electron bashing a little over the top as well? I mean VS Code, Discord, Slack and Obsidian are all in very widespread use and work perfectly fine for me. Are there alternatives to Electron that require less resources? Tauri seems to be proof that there are. But I think there is real value in large communities and backing. Electron seems to work perfectly fine to me for everyday us…

Slack is currently eating 600MB of my RAM, for something I check maybe once an hour. You know what I'd like to use my RAM for instead ? Gradle. kotlinc. intellij. Things that I actually use to do my work, and not a bad IRC that wants to make me pay for the privilege of seeing old messages. Electron is a demonstration of laziness and a living proof that software companies do not give a single shit about their users an…

Post by graftak » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:28 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #143

Sytten wrote: post #86

I build and ship a production application using tauri and linux support is the most painful experience I had in a long time. They use WebKit GTK which is really not a good fondation IMO, its hard to test for all versions, its much slower than other browser, it has weird bugs. In general the idea of not shipping a browser bundle is nice, in practice it doesn't really work for a startup. It's just too much unrelated te…

Here is an idea, do a Web application. Most of the Electron junk can be easily done as pure Web application, of course authors don't want to pay for hosting and ship a browser and server with the application. There are a very tiny percentage of such startup ideas that really need features not available on a standard Web browser.