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Ask HN: Stick to Electron (JS/TS), Swift and Kotlin or learn Rust and use Tauri

I currently use Electron (JS/TS), Swift and Kotlin to build FullStacked (https://github.com/fullstackedorg/editor) on all platforms.

I spent the last hour reading about Tauri (https://tauri.app) and now I'm wondering if learning Rust is worth it to have only one codebase for all platforms, instead of 3?

I mainly have a webdev background, but I still did some C++ and very little of Go. I'm not the best with pointers and memory allocation/deallocation, so is rust such a pain to work with for someone like me or people usually pick it up quite fast?

Also, is Rust enough feature-rich to build actual mobile apps or is it still too early phase for production?

Looking for some advices, personal opinions or experiences?

1 points cplepage 2 years ago 4 comments

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