Since both are written using Rust, I figured it would be super nice to have a desktop application using their toolkit. I was wondering if it could be considered by the developers and if anyone has any idea how hard would be to create it for someone who’s not a developer. Since you are technically not coding, maybe it feasible?
Yeah but why would I create a GUI if there is already one? Te whole purpose of Tauri to replace Electron in a more efficient way without the need to create a desktop app which is different from the web app. The only thing I should do would be to port Lemmy Web to Tauri or am I missing something?
Tauri just looks like it uses your OS’s web renderer. So even if its not using electron ( a giant chrome wrapper), its still a web renderer wrapper so not really native. Someone could package lemmy-ui in some wrapper and and make it a faux-desktop app I spose.
The whole point of Tauri seems to be that you get the benefits of writing the front end in rust, whereas lemmy-ui is already written in typescript, so you wouldn’t be able to use it.
There’d be no point in porting it either, because at that point, you might as well just write a native rust app that doesn’t use a web renderer, like iced.