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?

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    2 years ago

    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.