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Re: Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust

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I would say for me, the killer app would be just about anything you might reach for Electron with, but want a much smaller install footprint. Tauri in and of itself is pretty cool, kind of a lighter alternative to electron using native platform browser engine. In general, I would probably reach for Rust if I needed to do anything wither Web-Assembly (wasm) as the path to working is much nicer than other languages imo…

Tauri might be cool in theory, but Hello World consumers TWO POINT EIGHT GIGABYTES of hard disk on my machine. Arguing "Rust has no dev speed penalty" in that context is just... no. You are damaging your own cause there, because all advocacy becomes laughable.

So, you built the application, created the installer... and your install on another machine is 2.8GB? I find that hard to believe.

From another response, their Windows installer is under 7mb, and much of that is MSI boilerplate.

https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Re: Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust

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It's cool that this is coming from huggingface and it isn't just someone's hobby project. Rust is in a weird place where people are trying to push it in a bunch of places where it doesn't belong naturally (web dev, data science) but then when you complain that it's difficult to use you get told that you're using the wrong language for your use case... I really want to like Rust - I've read the Rust book, done the Rus…

I'd invite you to keep up on improvements in tooling like analyzer and auto-fixing clippy warnings (tho understanding internals of linters, borrow and type checkers is a full time job and then some)

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3267624/whats-new-in-the-r...

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