Re:Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (o...
by tito777 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:50AM
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Under the hood, it is wrapping Tauri, and as the live preview benefits from a proxy-tauri backend to let you feel like you are already in prod mode. I like that feeling too.
There is no Python, only Rust, AppleScript, and Shell script.
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Re:Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (o...
by pasanhk on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:02AM
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Using Tauri makes a lot of sense here keeping the binary size small while having Rust's safety for the backend is a huge win over Electron. The proxy tauri backend for live previews sounds like a clever way to handle the dev-to-prod feedback loop. Curious if you have hit any specific hurdles with AppleScript for the system level automation yet?
Re:Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (o...
by tito777 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:13AM
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AppleScript execution is running outside of the tauri app; the current app has no way to get the output reliably of the AS code generated by AI. Unless I do a semantic review of the code to make sure that I can capture the output/error of AS execution.
By now, AS run 90% of the time, when it is a single-phase execution, then it is easy. But multiphase execution has a high chance of having the code break in the middle.
That is why I instruct the AI engine to prefer sequential execution (atomic fashion)