Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri

Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by pjmlp on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:11AM (#36415001)

Here is an idea, do a Web application.

Most of the Electron junk can be easily done as pure Web application, of course authors don't want to pay for hosting and ship a browser and server with the application.

There are a very tiny percentage of such startup ideas that really need features not available on a standard Web browser.

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by graftak on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:28AM (#36415913)

Now that at least Windows, Chrome OS, and soon macOS properly support PWAs it will finally get feasible to add web apps to your desktop environment. I know I’ll upgrade to the new macOS ASAP just to get rid of slack.

(I don’t know about Linux).

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by nottorp on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:04AM (#36416170)

Just because you can put a link to a site on your desktop and make it run in its own window (and maybe process) it will make the "app" less bloated?

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by graftak on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:31AM (#36416764)

Yes because electron comes with its own distinct instance of chrome (usually an outdated version) for each individual app, introducing massive overhead versus running on the OS provided browser engine.

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by nottorp on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:59AM (#36416932)

It will still be a browser and a modern "app" done by people who think guis should refresh at 120 fps instead of just when something changed on screen...

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by Sytten on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:04AM (#36417393)

Funny enough that is exactly what we did and our users asked for a desktop application since this is what they were used to by our competitor.

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