Since both are written using Rust, I figured it would be super nice to have a desktop application using their toolkit. I was wondering if it could be considered by the developers and if anyone has any idea how hard would be to create it for someone who’s not a developer. Since you are technically not coding, maybe it feasible?
We wouldn’t have time to work on it (nutomic and I are already juggling 3 different UIs), but anyone else could. Building a lemmy UI isn’t a gargantuan task, but it does take a lot of work for a single developer, probably about a month or so, judging by how long it took me to create jerboa.
If I had infinite time, I’d probably make a native desktop client in rust using iced, not tauri, which seems to be web and not native.
Yeah but why would I create a GUI if there is already one? Te whole purpose of Tauri to replace Electron in a more efficient way without the need to create a desktop app which is different from the web app. The only thing I should do would be to port Lemmy Web to Tauri or am I missing something?
Tauri just looks like it uses your OS’s web renderer. So even if its not using electron ( a giant chrome wrapper), its still a web renderer wrapper so not really native. Someone could package lemmy-ui in some wrapper and and make it a faux-desktop app I spose.
The whole point of Tauri seems to be that you get the benefits of writing the front end in rust, whereas lemmy-ui is already written in typescript, so you wouldn’t be able to use it.
There’d be no point in porting it either, because at that point, you might as well just write a native rust app that doesn’t use a web renderer, like iced.
Hope you some time make it, it would be wonderful.
