News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust. Parent comment

Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by saagarjha on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:08PM (#26198663)
This is probably the comment you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449. I was unconvinced then, and I am even more unconvinced now as I run a fully native Cocoa Slack client on my Mac that was written by one person reverse engineering APIs.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by Klonoar on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:05AM (#26202024)
Nobody ever said that Slack couldn't be implemented in Cocoa, and it's really not remarkable that someone did it. ;P

You and I both know that one person can write UI in a vacuum, but there's a litany of other challenges that come up when positioning an application across platforms - sharing code, resources, etc. If all you look at it on is a technical level, you're doing the problem a disservice.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by fn1 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:15AM (#26202275)
That same reasoning is why Google is having a YouTube app on AppleTV which does not use native widgets, so bluetooth keyboards don't work, scrolling is off etc.

It's not that they cannot afford building 10 native AppleTV apps in parallel and pick the best one.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by macrael on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:37PM (#26198953)
what's that client?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by saagarjha on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:40PM (#26198990)
https://shrugs.app/.
[ Parent | on HN ]