alt Hacker NewsWith Tauri you also get the freedom of choosing frontend frameworks and can reuse existing frontend code/skills. Yes React has issues, for example Svelte handles reactivity in a much better way. I don't see real benefits of re-implementing the whole thing in Rust.
Replies
hrmtst93837 • yesterday at 7:09 PM
You can't fit browser JS ergonomics into Rust and expect zero friction, because once you wire up a stateful UI with the kind of component churn you get in React, you spend more time satisfying the type system, and you also give up hot reload plus a decade of npm junk for odd corner cases.
You need a hard reason for that rewrite.
A word to the wise: similar to how foam is mostly air, Tauri is mostly marketing. Most of those 15MB "lightweight" bundles expand to 2 GB+ RAM in practice. Of course, devs still shamelessly (ignorantly, in all likelihood) call the apps "lightweight", while taking up, say, 6 GB of RAM for a 5 button UI. Tauri have also proven reticent [0] to correct the record. One supposes the sole advantage of sharing memory with other Tauri apps is not a sufficient sell to overcome Electron's single-browser-engine advantage.
A pure Rust app takes up ~60 MB for the same UI, with a large portion of that going towards graphics (wgpu table stakes).
[0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889