alt Hacker NewsI nearly did this, but then I swapped to writing native desktop apps and egui - Rust is still worth it.
I've stopped using Tauri and gone with 100% egui. It's cross platform and excellent, and if you give it design constraints it will look beautiful.
Check out my 100% adobe clean room reimplementations:
https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
https://github.com/storytold/drawcraft (going to rename this vectorcraft)
The #1 thing for the Rust project to do is make Rust faster to compile.
Rust is the agentic AI language. It just needs to lean in and go faster.
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Looks great. It's early but how well do they work? Comparable to FOSS apps yet?
Also it says egui is immediate mode, does that use a lot of {C,G}PU or have any other issues?
Very cool projects! I agree, desktop apps are one of the areas that Rust beats Go. It's too bad though, since I feel anything with a heavy GUI like this can benefit from a rapid iteration cycle which is painful with Rust.
Wow those are some nice applications! Thanks for sharing this!
These are great
!!! WOW !!!
> The #1 thing for the Rust project to do is make Rust faster to compile.
#0 get rid of the orphan rule