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"rebuilt in Rust"

looks inside

60% Typescript

Yeah, didn't think so...

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Yeah, it's a Tauri app, which makes the claim in the README about it being a native app also rather a lie.

Did Tauri ever figure out how to run performantly on Linux, or are they still using webkit2gtk? They were looking at integrating Servo last time I checked, but I have no clue how far they've progressed with that since.

It's still webkit2gtk. A chromium version is in the works but it seems to use x11 under the hood..? So still not great.

I dont think the author knows what either of those things are. The whole thing is vibed.

Which is ironic. Why would a vibe coder need an IDE anyway?

For the fame that comes from making a Rust rewrite + opening something 'closed'

This ticket tries to explain it: https://github.com/l0ng-ai/openidea/issues/568

Building consistent frontends for all platforms isn’t easy in rust, so they use web standards for that.

The author's comment appears AI generated (or at very least heavily edited) and (imo) should be taken with a grain of salt. Very probable they don't know or/and thought of any of the usability/maintenance/performance considerations/costs mentioned within and they just blindly accepted whatever Claude generated.

So maybe Rust isn't the best tool for the job.

Things like these make me question the provided benchmarks too

"we have Rust at home"

Rust at home:

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