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by juancampa 1865 days ago
Interesting that you guys list "No Rust Skills Required" as a Pro instead of a Con. As a Rust programmer I'd prefer "No JS Required"
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Waterluvian 1865 days ago
?

Are you asking for them to make an entirely different product?

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juancampa 1864 days ago
I see how the second part of my comment seemed like I'm asking for "Rust in the front-end", that was not my intention. My main point stands though, requiring Rust is not necessarily a "Con", it's in the "Pros" list for many people
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whatshisface 1865 days ago
It's off-topic, but it would be nice for someone to make a really good GUI toolkit for Rust. Something that integrates with system APIs for copy-paste and stuff like that.
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Waterluvian 1865 days ago
There's a few decent ones but like a lot of Rust stuff, they're young.

I hear you though. It's, IMO, a core tool missing from my Rust toolbelt.

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juancampa 1864 days ago
The most promising one is makepad.dev IMO. It works on Mac/Windows/WebGL afaik
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silon42 1864 days ago
I would also expect/like that: HTML/CSS + Rust (no JS/GC). And running out-of-process. Add XUL as a bonus.
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oscargrouch 1864 days ago
I'm finishing this (no XUL tough), but the first impl(developer language) is in Swift. But the runtime the Swift access is pure C shims, so any other language can benefit from it.

If anyone is interested, it would be much easier to create those bindings to Rust. I'm super interested (and i would probably create a Rust SDK anyway) and there's a lot of other bonuses that neither Electron or Tauri can offer (as i target it not to be "just" a web-based app platform, but something that also had the soul of web browsers, by forming networks, addresses, etc).

If anyone is curious, there is more disclosure in another answer on this same thread.

i would love to give new all of those cool new languages that need a platform to thrive: Rust, Zig, Crystal, (and while not new) Python, a chance to have a 360 ecosystem, so we can stop being hostage of just Javascript being used.. and no, WebAssembly is definitely not it, as in the end it will give Javascript access to FFMPEG and the likes making it more prominent and ubiquitous

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