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tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (open source)
and you can check my github account if you are not sure that i'm human
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (open source)
I'm a real human. I'm not a bot. Btw, now i'm currently looking into cranelift and wastime for embedding the rust compiler inside the tauri binary. And it is not fun. Have you tried that?
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (open source)
AppleScript execution is running outside of the tauri app; the current app has no way to get the output reliably of the AS code generated by AI. Unless I do a semantic review of the code to make sure that I can capture the output/error of AS execution. By now, AS run 90% of the time, when it is a single-phase execution, then it is easy. But multiphase execution has a high chance of having the code break in the middle.

That is why I instruct the AI engine to prefer sequential execution (atomic fashion)

tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (open source)
Edited now. My main concern is how to embed a mini Rust compiler in Tauri for prod time.
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)
I also use Antigravity. I want to have the live preview of what I'm building. I don't have it in Claude Code, Antigravity, or Cursor.
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)
Under the hood, it is wrapping Tauri, and as the live preview benefits from a proxy-tauri backend to let you feel like you are already in prod mode. I like that feeling too. There is no Python, only Rust, AppleScript, and Shell script.
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)
Thanks, I failed after three attempts. I tried to build a clone of the current backend Tauri at dev time. The only approach that worked well was having a proxy. But now I'm looking into embedding a compiler inside the Tauri Rust at prod time.
tito777··on Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)
But you're right that the UI layer is still HTML/CSS rendered in a webview. It's not SwiftUI or Win32. Tauri gets you closer to native than Electron, smaller binaries, lower memory, OS-level webview, but it's not the same as writing Cocoa or GTK directly.

For what this project does (AI generating full apps), Tauri hits a good tradeoff: one codebase, all platforms, real system access, and the AI is much better at generating React than platform-specific UI frameworks. I tried to do the same with Swift it, fails meserably