[marcus_cemes]

I decided to use Tauri for the first time for a university project and it was absolutely painless to design a small and useful GUI application to programatically generate schematics for photolithography masks.

- Single lightweight binary install and executable (~6 MB), clean uninstall

- Automatic updates (digitally signed, uploaded to a small VM)

- Integrates nicely with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS

- The Rust backend was able to integrate with GTSDK over FFI. The cmake crate made C++ compilation and linking automatic as part of cargo build, provided that a C++ toolchain is available (no problems even on Windows).

- No scary toolchain setup with a load of licenses to review and accept (looking at you, Flutter. I'm a student, not a lawyer. Although perhaps this will also be a thing with Tauri + Android?)

For a small project, I can't recommend it enough. I wouldn't know where to start with a C# or Qt GUI application, especially if I wanted to make it cross-platform.

It'll be interesting to see if it gains any traction in the mobile space. Flutter is great and may be better optimised for certain rendering techniques, such as infinite lists, but sticking with web technologies is a very compelling advantage.

[nwah1]

.NET MAUI is cross-platform and very easy to get started with, but would sacrifice a lot of performance to gain the convenience and simplicity of the development experience.

[naavis]

It's also no-go for Linux. Otherwise I would be all over it.