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Thanks for the kind words.

I chose TS, because otherwise we had to put JSDoc everywhere.

No he meant "Why didn't you just write it in Rust, Duh"

I started the project PoC in Tauri, didn't work with WebRTC, then I tried that in wails, did not work either. Then I was tired and chose something from what I knew that I can make it work somehow.

Not saying that writing this completely in Rust without relying on WebRTC is completely out of reach, but Zig is also around and attractive as well.

Yes, indeed I meant not typescript, not js but something to do a real desktop app.

I'm not specially fan of Rust, but here what annoys me is to have to use an electron based app...

I'm not against a complete rewrite at some point in the future, to be not reliant on electronjs anymore.

But to be honest, that is not something I want to tackle alone. I need (code-)contributors for that. Basically someone who is well versed in MacOS native development and someone who is willing to take on native Windows stuff. I can take on the Linux part, but that's the minimum I would expect for it to work.

Next thing is getting signing certificates for MacOS and Windows.

MacOS costs USD99/y and Windows USD 350+/y or with the beta program USD 120/y

Which I'm willing to take on, if Bananas hits a nerve and people start really using it.

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