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Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by codedokode on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:25PM (#45896365)
> Rust backend, WebView front end.

I don't know much about it but it seems like a weird combination. If you want high performance and low memory usage, you don't want HTML, if you want fast code writing, you don't want Rust.

Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by powersnail on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:19AM (#45896625)
I could see a case where the core logic needs to be performant, but the UI does not. The front end could be some menus, displaying (not a giant amount of) data, and a progress bar, while the back end does heavy computing.

And furthermore, if you want fast code writing, you write in the language you already know. For some people, that is Rust.

Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by Ray20 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:23AM (#45896932)
A very reasonable combination:

- HTML is the main way of designing interfaces (whether we like it or not)

- Rust is the main language promoted by intelligence agencies with multi-billion dollar budgets because it is laced with their backdoors (whether we like it or not)

Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by PhilippGille on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:20AM (#45897252)
There's Wails for Go backend and webview frontend; https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by osigurdson on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:53AM (#45897431)
I don't believe you generally end up writing a lot of Rust with something like Tauri. It is mostly web dev. While it is true that browser based UIs are slower than native, it isn't clear that .NET based UIs would be any faster while being very niche.
Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by raincole on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:16AM (#45897602)
Use the slower but easier to write languages for front end is the norm for complex apps. Many apps that passed the trial of time are like that.

Blender: frontend Python, backend C++.

Houdini: frontend Python(PyQt), backend C(presumably)

Sim City: frontend JavaScript, backend C++

The reason is very simple: frontend is more error tolerant, but less resistant to the product designer's whims (or the users' desire to customize.)

Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by jcelerier on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:52PM (#45906490)
> Blender: frontend Python, backend C++.

blender's frontend is pretty much exclusively C++? https://github.com/blender/blender/tree/main/source/blender/...

> Houdini: frontend Python(PyQt),

I would be infinitely surprised if Houdini's frontend wasn't also a majority C++. Likewise consider large apps such as Ardour, Krita, etc.