• ExLisper@linux.community
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    11 months ago

    I though the same but I tried Tauri and it makes sense. Unlike electron you’re not shipping the entire browser with your app and the the low level stuff is just rust so the integration is nice and easy. And using webview for UI? Why not? The reactive libraries are actually nice to work with, it’s easy to customize, you have all the tools to inspect/debug your code. It’s definitely better then trying to fit GTK into rust.

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      11 months ago

      I’m using Tauri to play around with Rust. I like it so far.

      I always thought it uses far fewer resources than electron.

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          11 months ago

          oh JS too, which kinda throws me off because I’m not bad with Web Dev, but I’m not good either and my UI looks like a bad web page than a good desktop app.

          I’m actually trying to keep it simple and write my own launcher like Alfred, Albert, Kupfer but I want it to launch my own custom scripts that I can load in a directory as well.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah, UI is hard. I try to use good component librarian as much as possible but actually making it look consistent is difficult.

            For the UI I’m using leptos. It’s actually very nice and using rust on both front and back means there’s couple less things to worry about.