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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

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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.

App looks great, I'm on Windows so I can't wait to see it!

Thanks! If you're interested in that version, drop us a note: hello [at] desktopdocs dot com. We'll shoot you an update when it's ready!

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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Given your destination was the Mac app, why not Swift/SwiftUI rather than Rust/Tauri? Just curious is all.

Curious as well. I’m planning to build a desktop app, haven’t use swift for a long time and I’m pretty new to rust. Tauri looks very promising. I really don’t like electron apps. They’re so slow to start even on lightning fast machines. Thanks for any insights!

After our Electron experience, I wish I had moved out of my comfort zone (JS) sooner. Electron just requires a lot of optimization and you have to be really tight with your imports to avoid loading things you don't immediately need.

The smaller bundle size with Tauri and blazing speed are well worth the effort.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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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.

Have you started your windows version testing? Any issues you've seen in the differences between browsers tauri would use on the different OSs?

We haven't started testing for windows yet. Are you on Windows? Happy to let you know when we're releasing that version.

Re: Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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I would be willing to pay for this if it were available for Linux! Main use case: searching through my years of screenshots

Awesome! Linux version is on our roadmap and that use case is exactly why we started building this too. I can let you know when that version is ready
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