Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust

Re:Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust by Octoth0rpe on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:28AM (#31764750)

> What's the point of mentioning Rust when the heavylifting is done by the system's webview widget, and applications are written in HTML/CSS/JS, just as in Electron?

You're assuming the 'heavylifting' part of the application is in the UI itself. Imagine some data processing app where the heavylifting part would benefit from a backend running in Rust. Say, an image enhancer of some kind.

> Without this requirement, it was also trivial before Electron showed up to write a small native wrapper application around the system-provided webview widget.

Electron also made the packaging of such an app dramatically easier when building on macos/linux/windows.

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Re:Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust by trinovantes on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:49AM (#31764882)

But Electron apps can also launch separate programs written in any language with child_process.exec() e.g. ffmpeg wrapper GUIs

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Re:Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust by nu11ptr on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:16AM (#31766306)

I believe Tauri has "sidecar" which does the same thing

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Re:Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust by thayne on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:05PM (#31773723)

But if you write your "backend" in rust, then with tauri you don't need a separate process, which may or may not be important depending on how your application works, and your tolerance for additional overhead.

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