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Re:Building a fast Electron app with Rust by pas on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:09AM (#16611777)
Maybe you have missed the part about the laughably hostile native APIs. No hotkey support, no easy windowing (or lack of thereof).
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Re:Building a fast Electron app with Rust by matthewmacleod on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:49AM (#16612171)
I didn't, but I'm wondering if you maybe misunderstood it – that was specifically about implementing the app in what the author describes as a 'game-like' manner, using an SDL library from Rust.

In contrast, platform-native UI frameworks are absolutely optimised for things like this. There's definitely no difficulty in using hotkeys or windowing functions in Appkit, for example.

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