Can I develop desktop apps with Rust without using a framework such as Tauri?

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  1. egui

    egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

    If you want to use separate codebases, then you might consider egui, iced or gtk-rs for the desktop part.

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  3. iced

    A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

    If you want to use separate codebases, then you might consider egui, iced or gtk-rs for the desktop part.

  4. gtk-rs

    Discontinued Rust bindings for GTK 3

    If you want to use separate codebases, then you might consider egui, iced or gtk-rs for the desktop part.

  5. dioxus

    Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

    If you want to develop a web app and a desktop from the same codebase, I'd look at https://dioxuslabs.com/. It's desktop support is currently based on Tauri, but a native renderer is planned.

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