Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

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.

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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#.

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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.

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