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Building desktop app with Rust and Elm, no Electron needed (github.com/huytd)
12 points by huydotnet on April 29, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



> But Electron did the same thing?

> Yeh, but sometimes, all you need is just a webview to display your web application on a desktop. You don't need file system access or automatic update, blah blah, it would be a huge waste to ship your app with >100MB of Chromium and V8 in it.

> In fact, this application only uses 0-3% CPU and the bundle size is >800KB on macOS.

~800Kb is really nice leap from 100M !


Inspired by this I did a little proof of concept in Go: https://github.com/imdario/gonban


Getting multiple errors on both repos. OP fork of webview is getting a linker error in my windows 10 and the elm project doesn't build past elm-make, the webpack fails later...





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