habitat
tauri
habitat | tauri | |
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4 | 510 | |
2,645 | 93,768 | |
0.7% | 2.0% | |
9.9 | 9.8 | |
4 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
habitat
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42 Companies using Rust in production
And many more such as Scaleway, Oxide, Fuchsia, MeiliSearch, Vector, embark, Chef, BBC...
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Is there an infrastructure as code project written in Rust?
https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat written by Chef devs
- Why are there no descent Go or Rust alternatived to Ansible?
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Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design
Personal anecdote: Habitat was developed as a sort of application deployment / configuration management tool in Rust, and the architecture there is roughly equivalent to an ECS. I found it a joy to work with and work on. Not sure if it's fundamentally a better software pattern, but it at least meshes with my brain better than how most OO-style software is laid out.
https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat
tauri
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Exploring the top Rust web frameworks
Tauri is a Rust-based library that enables you to build lightweight desktop applications by leveraging web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the UI. You can use any frontend framework of your choice that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Unlike Electron (a JavaScript desktop app development framework), which relies on Chromium and Node.js, Tauri uses the system's native web view.
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SonicScan - A Music Fingerprinting and Identification App
Then I learned Tauri and used my favourite frontend framework SolidJS with TailwindCSS and DaisyUI to build the UI with MotionOne to add animations and Tauri to build the desktop/web/android/ios app.
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How to make your Tauri dev faster
tauri dev is incredibly slow
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We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App
Are the memory benchmarks measured correctly?
This tauri issue suggests the common measurement approach might be wrong
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
Also would be better to have specific startup time instead of "fast" (which is strange since electron is not known for fast startup)
- Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
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Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal
Here is a whole story: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/4089
tl;dr - Tauri uses platform's default implementation of a webview. On Windows it's WebView2 which reports back to MS.
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Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.
Wails does that: https://wails.io/
Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/
That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...
Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).
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Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
HTML/CSS can still be used for the frontend even without Electron. Some frameworks use the OS bundled web renderer instead:
- For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
- For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
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Tauri (1) — A desktop application development solution more suitable for web developers ✅
Official Website: https://tauri.app/ (v2.0)
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Things people get wrong about Electron
In the article, the claim is made: if many popular software products like Slack, VSCode, and Docker Desktop all use Electron, then it must be good.
In response, I would say: while Electron makes it easy for the software developer to build and distribute software, especially on multiple platform, as an end user it is NEVER the best experience.
That's why there are people spending significant effort to develop better solutions than Electron. For instance, the Tauri project ( https://tauri.app/ ) is a lightweight alternative to Electron.
The article defends the minimum application bundle size of 100MB-300MB is as no issue, because streaming 4K video takes much more bandwidth than such a software download. But the bigger issue than disk space or download bandwidth is the RAM usage and overall low performance of Electron projects. Even with a 16 GB or 32 GB RAM system, when you're running many apps and doing serious multitasking, the gigabytes quickly get used up and then things slow down.
For example, if you have used VSCode, try using the Zed editor (https://zed.dev/). You will be blown away by its incredible speed. Launches in the blink of an eye, and it responds to every input with zero latency. We have forgotten that software can actually be fast.
Jonathan Blow, "Will Software Stop Getting Slower?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ka549NNdDk
What are some alternatives?
woodpecker - Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
tv-renamer - Mirror of https://gitlab.com/mmstick/tv-renamer
slint - Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.
magog - A roguelike game in Rust
dioxus - Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.