Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza

For the uninitiated:

> Tauri is a framework for building tiny, fast binaries for all major desktop and mobile platforms. Developers can integrate any frontend framework that compiles to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for building their user experience while leveraging languages such as Rust, Swift, and Kotlin for backend logic when needed.

https://v2.tauri.app/start/

Miguel de Icaza is kind of a legend, I know him most from his work on Mono and Gnome. Whatever he works on today will likely be part of a stack you work on in a few years (at least that's my experience).

To anybody with experience, how's Swift? Especially outside MacOS/iOS programming. Let's say I want to use it standalone for doing some systems programming, how's the standard lib? I'd like to not rely on apple specific frameworks like uikit

Have built a cross alternative tailscale gui client based on tauri, the rust and ffi to cgo tailscale feel a little tough, I was wondering it will save a lot time to me if the tauri had been written in go.

Seems Miguel’s velox point a new idea, leveraging the wry and use ffi to go, and rewrite some tooling.

I hope I will have the spare time and energy to give a try…

The runtime-wry-ffi (https://github.com/velox-apps/velox/blob/f062211ced4c021d819...) file which is 3.2K lines long and has close to a 100 unsafe calls, isn't that just interacting with wry which has it's own crate you could use instead? I'm not 100% sure, but seems to be basically the same as wry itself but without the cross-platform stuff, is that the purpose of that file?

Together with the author's distaste for Rust, it seems awfully dangerous instead of pulling in a crate made by Rust developers, but I might misunderstand the purpose of the file here.

A "port" or "a nice Swift API for it"? It seems like the latter in that it requires cargo (the rust build chain) to build.

I asked the author about whether this could be ported to support Android/Linux/Windows and he was optimistic it would not be much trouble. So I plan to look into that.

What I’d like to determine first is if I can use this for brownfield development: on Apple platforms I’d like to stick to native SwiftUI and use Velox only for some views inside of a SwiftUI host application. And then on other platforms it can be fully Velox.

I can’t find any info on people doing this with Tauri. Expo recently added this about a month ago for React Native but I’d prefer to use Swift everywhere. I appreciate any info.

Not to be confused with Velox a compute engine https://github.com/facebookincubator/velox/

Eh. Dioxus to me is the more interesting project honestly.