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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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