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Dioxus seems to be 'just' another way to generate HTML on the desktop. Electron but Rust? Is there a legitimate upside there?
by ga_to 3mo ago
Dioxus seems to be 'just' another way to generate HTML on the desktop.
Electron but Rust?
Is there a legitimate upside there?
- neobrain 3mo agoWith Dioxus, program logic compiles to native code instead of running it through a JS engine, and it ships its own HTML renderer (Blitz) instead of bundling a whole browser. So it's a lot more lightweight and performant than Electron. As a minor bonus, the live-reload is also faster than what frameworks like React do. It truly has subsecond latency, which isn't exactly a game changer but is nice when iterating on visual details of an app.
- Abishek_Muthian 3mo agoSounds similar to Wails. It does the same but with Go instead of Rust.
- opem 3mo agoI don't think so, wails is more like tauri rather than diouxus
- nicoburns 3mo agoWe now also have a custom GPU renderer (Blitz), which makes Dioxus more comparable to Flutter or the other Rust GUI toolkits (GPUI, Iced, etc).