[the__alchemist]

As a rust developer, I do too! Those are not representative of rust GUI/3D etc desktop applications. I've made some pretty complicated stuff with 2D and 3D graphics, lots of functionality; expected size is 5-15Mb on Windows, and 10-25Mb on Linux. Less if you don't need 3D.

[anthk]

Strip the Linux binaries with strip(1).

[correa_brian]

What do you think would be more in line with what you've seen in the past? There's definitely room to keep optimizing.

[the__alchemist]

<25Mb for the executable. For the use case the web page desribes, probably <15Mb. It usually comes down to dependencies used.

[katrinarodri]

Interesting. I'd love to get our app size down further, under 15MB would be great.

[tonyhart7]

is there a UI framework production ready yet in rust??? because for Tauri at least you can use JS which is fine

[_bent]

yeah slint, which is most similar to Qt

see https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...

[fkyoureadthedoc]

lol when you click through to this site from HN it redirects to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fa...

if you open in new tab or copy/paste in new tab it does not.

[sedatk]

Funny for sure, but not novel. JWZ also doesn't let his web site linked from HN. Example link (that only works properly when you copy paste, opinionated rejection otherwise): https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/

[the__alchemist]

EGUI

[airstrike]

iced is the best IMHO