Native Windows GUI VS tauri

[2] https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui

On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.

https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs.

My crate native-windows-gui supports tray application, if you only care about Windows. Example: https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui/blob/master/native-windows-gui/examples/system_tray_d.rs

Created a small resident windows program that shows a different icon depending on battery level test how easy using windows-rs and native-windows-gui is. Picked this as an easy learning project after seeing Battery Buddy for macOS.

native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui

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

Some time ago, I discovered how RSS works. I regret not discovering it sooner, and since then, I added it to my blog. Later, I looked for ways to follow different sources, and that's when the idea of creating my own application came to me. Before even asking myself, "What technology should I use?" I already had the answer: Tauri.

Rewrite Muscurdi - Password Manager in Rust with [iced](https://github.com/iced-rs/iced, dioxus and/or tauri

Yeah, Tauri would be great. But I think it will take quite some time until the fundamental rendering performance issues [1] under Linux can be fixed. There seem to be rough plans to bundle CEF on Linux [2], but AFAICS this seems to be only a discussion at this point.

[1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988

Tauri Official Documentation

Thank you! More than 50% of the codebase is written in Rust. The GUI is rendered using a native web view with Tauri (https://tauri.app).

2. Tauri Tauri is a framework for building smaller, secure desktop and mobile applications with a web front-end. If you're interested in building cross-platform apps with a focus on security, this is an excellent project to explore.

I currently use Electron (JS/TS), Swift and Kotlin to build FullStacked (https://github.com/fullstackedorg/editor) on all platforms.

I spent the last hour reading about Tauri (https://tauri.app) and now I'm wondering if learning Rust is worth it to have only one codebase for all platforms, instead of 3?

I mainly have a webdev background, but I still did some C++ and very little of Go. I'm not the best with pointers and memory allocation/deallocation, so is rust such a pain to work with for someone like me or people usually pick it up quite fast?

Also, is Rust enough feature-rich to build actual mobile apps or is it still too early phase for production?

Looking for some advices, personal opinions or experiences?