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Maybe look at tauri?

You can write the cli in rust and the gui in html js css

Binary will probably end up around 6MB

Rust has been on my ToDo list. I played with it, but haven't written anything proper in it. This would be a really cool option, and I'll get to learn something new! So, basically I can use any HTML/JS framework I want for the UI?

Cool project, what are some of the "cons" (if you or anyone else happen to know of any)? I've read through the website and github readme so I have a sense of the "pros"

I guess, that you have to write (some?) Rust.

It appears that you don't really have to write any Rust unless you need to do some heavy lifting. In this case Rust would be grate for file tree scanning, the rest can be done in JS. I am having trouble finding any really grate examples of what has been built in Tauri. I kind of want to play with a fully featured app to see how it performs.

On Windows, Tauri won't run on a computer unless it has WebView2, which doesn't ship by default on Windows before 10, but may be automatically installed on Windows 10[1]. I'm not sure if all Windows 10 computers have it automatically installed though, in the Insider ring, stable ring, and/or LTSB.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is...

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