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Is Rust supposed to be that hard? (lemmy.today)
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I decided to adventure myself in Tauri development for a personal project, I read the entire Rust official book and followed the exercises. When I first started developing it was like if nothing I learned helped for real life projects.

Now after getting betting up every single time I touch my project, it seems I'm catching things slowly.

But I've never seen such a hard modern language, I used C and C++ before and it's incomparable.

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Do you really need tauri?

Tauri is for web devs that want to make GUIs with web tech in rust. You can do GUIs without web tech.

If you really want to make a GUI with rust, you can use iced.

If you just want a GUI with web tech, do it in JavaScript+html.

If you want a GUI without web tech and don't care the language, use a GUI toolkit for your preferred language.

Learning a GUI toolkit is hard. Learning a language is hard. Learning both at the same time is even harder than the sum.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Tauri provides native system plugins cross platform, that's what I want, paired with the fact it doesn't bundle Chromium, apps are lightweight and fast.

    You can use Tauri with Iced too, it doesn't require web tech, the strong point of Tauri is the native system modules.

    I thought about using native tools only but I'm planning on supporting Linux and Windows at the same time, so that's the appealing for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't know what kind of a GUI you're building, but there are simpler options than Tauri out there. Slint comes to mind.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    The GUI isn't important to be honest, just anything that doesn't look too outdated. I'm more interested on cross-platform native plugins, so I don't need to write all by hand. Slint seems to be less libre than Tauri, there are pricing on their website, even tho I understand it's free, still, I prefer to keep it away from strongly backed by individual company, especially if I don't know it well.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "plugins" is not a feature. What plugin specifically do you need? Most probably you can accomplish whatever you need with a library and iced. Plugin is just a fancy word for library.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Plugin are a feature when it provides cross platform abstraction for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS.

    Doing it natively means I need to make a few thousands of extra ifs and maintain all different ifs for each platform, while Tauri provides it out of the box. Such as notifications, filesystem access, file opener, auto start, window management and etc...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    There are plenty of cross-platform libraries in rust. In fact, most of them are. Since Rust is cross-platform at its core.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    You probably mean general purpose libraries, when it comes to libraries that need to interact with OS native APIs Tauri does the heavy lifting by implementing for all platforms including Android and iOS.

    I mean every language is cross-platform at its core, even Node, but for more complex calls things get really tricky.

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