I decided to adventure myself in Tauri development for a personal project, I read the entire Rust official book and followed the exercises. When I first started developing it was like if nothing I learned helped for real life projects.
Now after getting betting up every single time I touch my project, it seems I’m catching things slowly.
But I’ve never seen such a hard modern language, I used C and C++ before and it’s incomparable.
The GUI isn’t important to be honest, just anything that doesn’t look too outdated. I’m more interested on cross-platform native plugins, so I don’t need to write all by hand. Slint seems to be less libre than Tauri, there are pricing on their website, even tho I understand it’s free, still, I prefer to keep it away from strongly backed by individual company, especially if I don’t know it well.
“plugins” is not a feature. What plugin specifically do you need? Most probably you can accomplish whatever you need with a library and iced. Plugin is just a fancy word for library.
Plugin are a feature when it provides cross platform abstraction for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS.
Doing it natively means I need to make a few thousands of extra ifs and maintain all different ifs for each platform, while Tauri provides it out of the box. Such as notifications, filesystem access, file opener, auto start, window management and etc…
There are plenty of cross-platform libraries in rust. In fact, most of them are. Since Rust is cross-platform at its core.