dioxus VS Flutter

There's also Tauri which https://dioxuslabs.com/ uses.

Dioxus Labs (http://dioxuslabs.com) | Founding Rust Engineer | San Francisco | in-person | Full-time | 125-150k | 0.5-3% equity

I'm Jonathan, the creator of Dioxus (YC S23). Dioxus is a popular crossplatform GUI library for Rust that, imo, is the easiest way to ship apps that are beautiful, fast, and robust.

Dioxus is quite popular, almost 20k stars on GitHub, and we recently raised a sizable seed round from "top vcs." We have a lot of exciting projects on the horizon:

- in-place binary patching for rust hotreloading (http://github.com/jkelleyrtp/ipbp)

- a WGPU powered HTML/CSS renderer (http://github.com/dioxusLabs/blitz)

- experiments with LLM-based component generation (http://github.com/dioxusLabs/dioxus-ai)

- upcoming mobile tooling

- TUI-based devtools for a ruby-on-rail like experience

- a deploy platform for web/desktop/mobile/backend and all the fun that entails...

I'm looking for a founding systems engineer passionate about Rust, WASM, apps, the web, compilers, linkers, and devex - basically someone who's not afraid of anything. Dioxus is a very lean organization and we've been able to move so quickly since we keep our team small and high trust. No annoying standups or corporate bureaucracy. If you want to contribute to OSS, move the needle, and work in a startup that's closer to deeptech with hard problems, this role is for you.

I'm specifically looking for people who are excited by this space and doing this type of work. If you're just looking for a job then this probably isn't the right role for you.

Apply on our yc page or are reach me directly at jon at dioxuslabs dot com

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dioxus-labs/jobs/dRPOo...

We have a web components example here: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/blob/fd21c971038840130f...

Everything should work like normal except: attributes are not typed, custom event listeners must be implemented with web-sys

I think something like https://dioxuslabs.com could deliver native, cross platform apps and win back mobile.

While we took an in-depth look at Dioxus in this tutorial, there is still so much to learn. Luckily, Dioxus provides detailed documentation with references and cookbooks to guide developers. Make sure you check it out, and feel free to comment below with any questions.

You can probably imagine the challenges of integrating such a system in a robust way that does a good job and improves on the status quo. We felt like the Tauri implementation worked well for Tauri apps. But there’s a problem: it was so tightly coupled to Tauri that the work couldn’t be enjoyed by other projects (not even the ones like Dioxus who were using Tauri’s underlying technology of Tao + Wry).

Flutter

Dart/Flutter: I chose the Dart language and the Flutter framework because I already have experience with these technologies and was looking for a solution that would allow the creation of an app for both iOS and Android without needing to create two separate codes.

Before starting the tutorial on developing a personal target tracking application with Flutter, Riverpod, Strapi, and GraphQL, ensure you meet the following requirements:

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.19.2, on macOS 14.2.1 23C71 darwin-arm64, locale en-US) • Flutter version 3.19.2 on channel stable at /Users/rona/Sites/Tools/flutter • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git • Framework revision 7482962148 (3 months ago), 2024-02-27 16:51:22 -0500 • Engine revision 04817c99c9 • Dart version 3.3.0 • DevTools version 2.31.1

The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/

If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip...

Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing to cope with that (expect to have to change your code as they develop the framework) then Flutter is the way as it's pretty stable already on all platforms.

If you already know Typescript and React, you may also consider React Native: https://reactnative.dev/

In the competitive world of mobile app development, having a strong portfolio of Flutter projects is essential to stand out. Flutter, Google's UI toolkit, is renowned for its ability to create beautiful, cross-platform apps efficiently. Let's explore ten projects that can demonstrate your expertise and make your CV shine.

Deploying Dart functions to AWS Lambda enables you to utilize them not only within AWS Lambda but also integrate them with services like Amazon API Gateway, allowing you to leverage them in Flutter applications as well. This unified codebase in Dart offers great convenience.

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/