[bryanlarsen]

Shout out to Dioxus. It's a react clone that provides a really nice experience and can run a web GUI faster than React can. That's quite the accomplishment given the disadvantage of having to use shims to access the DOM.

If you want to choose a single language that can create native GUI's, Rust is probably your best or only choice. Other languages are lacking a good story for either the web or for iOS but Rust works well on both.

[mritchie712]

have you built anything with it? We're using Tauri, but Dioxus looks very interesting.

[terhechte]

I recently build this side project with Dioxus:

https://terhechte.github.io/twitvault/

Here's a review of the experience of using it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/zegv2e/comment/izb6nl...

[ianpurton]

Can you let me know about incremental compile times?

Basically with the HTML frameworks that use macros I'm getting incremental builds 10 seconds or more. Did you experience the same?

[terhechte]

Incremental compile times were quite fast, I'd say in the 1-2 seconds. I also have another project where I'm using Dioxus-web for a web application. When building a web app, it also has hot code reloading and I'd say reloads take under a second (though I just started this app so it only has a couple hundred lines of code).

I have an M1 Pro Max though, which is quite a fast machine.

[ianpurton]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

[FullyFunctional]

It's beautiful!

OT: it seemed like an awesome application so I ran it but a few seconds into importing I got

"Rate limit for Tweet Replies reached. Waiting 18446744072038294844 seconds"

I'm not going to live nearly long enough for that!

ADD: and there's no cancel button or anyway way to stop it.

[anon23anon]

Does Dioxus run in a webview on mobile? That's how I'm reading the docs.

[bryanlarsen]

In theory it doesn't have to. In practice, yes.

My comment said that rust had a great cross-platform story, not Dioxus. If I was doing cross-platform rust I'd use cacao for iOS, Dioxus for web front end, et cetera.

[bryanlarsen]

I have, but nothing used by more than 3 people.

[ink404]

kotlin is a decent choice as well

[bryanlarsen]

True. I forgot about the family of languages that will transpile to Javascript. That gives most of them a good web front end story, and of course Kotlin has a good iOS story.