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This looks great too, but just to point out if you're looking for something like Electron (but rust, or smaller or whatever) then Tauri is a much closer fit, using web stuff (HTML, CSS, JS, wasm, frameworks, whatever you want) for the UI in the same way.

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Tauri, while an improvement on some aspects, is still a webapp in a shell. But it has the problem that you have to deal with browser specific quirks.

From what I understand, this will avoid that problem by compiling to whatever native platform you are building for? Also it'd not just be a webapp in a shell.

If by browser specific quirks you mean having to deal with Webkit as Windows is Chromium now.

Well, Tauri (or more specifically the 'ri' part: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/) uses different engines on different platforms, so I assume there's the potential for quirks.

Yes, correct I think on all counts. I was just responding to the Electron comparison, saying if that's what you want, maybe look at Tauri, because it's also 'a webapp in a shell'.

For some people in some senses, there's a big advantage to the 'webapp in a shell' model, because HTML/CSS is considered good, or WhizzBang.js is the familiar tool for building UIs, or whatever.

I didn't mean to say it's better (or worse) than this - it's just quite a different (more similar to Electron) approach, that'll suit some and not others.

Thanks. I had not heard of Tauri.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

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