Building a fast Electron app with Rust
I think it’s cool that people are playing around with this sort of thing.<p>The truth is, though, I don’t understand why this architecture is attractive in this case. This is essentially a thin front-end UI on top of a fast cross-platform backend. That’s a great structure - but why not make the UI <i>native</i> for each platform?<p>Calling into a Rust backend from Swift, or from whatever UI framework you use on Linux or Windows, is going to be just as easy as with Neon. At the moment, you are including <i>vast</i> amounts of code and using a large amount of memory to display a very small amount of text on-screen. It seems very inefficient for such an otherwise elegant application!