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Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by correa_brian on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:09PM (#44118203)
Thanks for checking it out. The goal is for Desktop Docs to be cross-platform. We've had a lot of requests for Windows support, so we chose Rust to set us up for an upcoming Windows version.
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by amendegree on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @02:18PM (#44119000)
I know it’s probably still not ready for prime time, but I believe the arc browser team was building a windows runtime for swift bec they prefer to use swift everywhere.
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by StewardMcOy on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @10:59PM (#44122706)
I checked it out a while back. It still requires you to write two different UIs in two different frameworks: SwiftUI or Appkit on Mac, and WinUI on Windows. It's just that now you can write WinUI code in Swift instead of C#.
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by amendegree on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:07AM (#44123524)
I mean I guess that makes sense as it’d be a pretty big project to port Appkit to windows APIs, but that’s not really a great benefit in terms of cross-platform development. I guess if you’re building something like a browser, you’re going so low level anyways that most of those cross-platform bells and whistles don’t provide much benefit.
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by rstupek on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:11PM (#44118231)
Have you started your windows version testing? Any issues you've seen in the differences between browsers tauri would use on the different OSs?
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by correa_brian on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:24PM (#44118410)
We haven't started testing for windows yet. Are you on Windows? Happy to let you know when we're releasing that version.
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by burnte on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:10PM (#44118215)
App looks great, I'm on Windows so I can't wait to see it!
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust by correa_brian on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:21PM (#44118347)
Thanks! If you're interested in that version, drop us a note: hello [at] desktopdocs dot com. We'll shoot you an update when it's ready!