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veidr ◴[] No.42200676[source]
So this aspires to be something like Tauri, but with Zig for the fast/native bits, and leaning harder on and more opinionated about the frontend/UI part?

That's a pretty interesting proposal, but also a staggeringly huge amount of work.

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yoav ◴[] No.42200712[source]
It’s only been a few months but yes it’s a huge undertaking.

I’m only picking up steam though and my whole career has been taking on these kinds of huge projects so it’s just getting started.

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veidr ◴[] No.42200750[source]
Awesome. :) Good luck.

I think it's a really attractive package for an early-stage one-person project. Nice docs, and cute bunny.

FWIW, it also seems super-sensible to focus on Mac only for now, and get the basics working well there — a good Mac DX could provide the traction/momentum to get more contributors to help build out the obvious cross-platform promise.

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1. brailsafe ◴[] No.42201314[source]
Ya, I kind of hate to say it, but it feels like because of Window's backwards compatibility and variation in UI styles over the years, people expect Mac apps to be comparatively pretty consistent, and consistently good. There's some wiggle room, but usually it's some niche open source app that's just too generally useful to prioritize mac