Same, I'm using Tauri for few toy projects and I'd like to know whether this is worth checking out. I love Tauri but Rust has a very steep learning curve for me (as a mainly frontend web developer), for basically everything I want to do I have to resort to Claude/ChatGPT. Fortunately they're quite good at writing (not so complex) Rust code.
Or Wails with Go. It’s good we have more competitors in the desktop space.
As far as I understood it, Tauri is a safer Electron, not a lighter one.
Isn't it both? Tauri is lighter because it doesn't bundle an entire Chromium instance for each app, rather it uses the native OS's existing webview.
Which gives it all the compatibility issues of each platform.
I'd really like not to see Rust-can-do-it-too mentioned in each post just once these days. After all it's using webview, which has its limits no matter what sugar you lay on top, not to mention, Wails with Go is 10x easier to code than Rust if you must use webview.
There shouldn't be a difference. Tauri doesnt even require you write rust. It's entirely optional.
That's not at all what this is. Tauri is written in rust but doesn't require writing any rust. You can use just frontend js, or node on the backend, or rust, python, c++, etc.
Wails needs to write Go for the backend side, I would assume Tauri needs Rust to do backend side work too, after all UI is just the surface and we need the backend(or system side) code to do the heavy lifting. If the frontend is JS/HTML/CSS and the backend can be any language of choice, what is Rust doing here then? I must be missing something.