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Re:Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta by ironmagma on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:55PM (#27161888)
Sure, those other languages would be fine, but they all have their own severe downsides..

C# - requires an obscure runtime (Mono) on most platforms

Kotlin - suffers from JVM's infamous GC pauses and startup time

Swift - not open source (not SwiftUI, the good part)

TypeScript - mostly same problems as JavaScript

Java - same problems as Kotlin

No one has managed to do open source cross-platform development well yet IMO. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

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Re:Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta by nsonha on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:08AM (#27162270)
Ocaml: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

F#: https://safe-stack.github.io

To watch:

Kotlin NATIVE

Scala NATIVE

Note that even with Scala's complexity, the language's focus is first and foremost domain modelling & expressiveness.

Rust is first and foremost, a language for memory safety and raw performance, it just happens to have some level of expressiveness. Nothing wrong with that either.

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Re:Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta by ironmagma on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:17AM (#27162624)
Those are some interesting picks, thanks! Will definitely be checking them out.
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