alt Hacker News+1 for Tauri, I've been using it for my recent vibe-coded experimental apps. Making rust the "center of gravity" for the app lets me use the best of all worlds:
- declarative-ish UI in typescript with react
- rust backend for performance-sensitive operations
- I can run a python sidecar, bundled with the app, that lets me use python libraries if I need it
If I can and it makes sense to, I'll pull functionality into rust progressively, but this give me a ton of flexibility and lets me use the best parts of each language/platform.
Its fast too and doesn't use a ton of memory like electron apps do.
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rapnie • yesterday at 7:10 PM
I added a list of known Extism implementers to my comment above, to take inspiration from should Extism be attractive to consider for you.
Also, Rust's strong and strict type system keeps Claude honest. It seems as if the big LLM models have trained on a lot of poorly written TypeScript because they tend to use type assertions such as `as any` and eslint disable comments.
I had to add strict ESLint and TypeScript rules to keep guardrails on the coding agents.