Live reload. GUI development in compiled languages is a pain compared to web development.

Try dioxus, it has live reload but it's a work in progress.

Dioxus seems to be 'just' another way to generate HTML on the desktop. Electron but Rust? Is there a legitimate upside there?

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neobrain a day ago | parent | next [-]

With Dioxus, program logic compiles to native code instead of running it through a JS engine, and it ships its own HTML renderer (Blitz) instead of bundling a whole browser. So it's a lot more lightweight and performant than Electron.

As a minor bonus, the live-reload is also faster than what frameworks like React do. It truly has subsecond latency, which isn't exactly a game changer but is nice when iterating on visual details of an app.

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Abishek_Muthian a day ago | parent [-]

Sounds similar to Wails. It does the same but with Go instead of Rust.

	▲	opem a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think so, wails is more like tauri rather than diouxus

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nicoburns a day ago | parent | prev [-]

We now also have a custom GPU renderer (Blitz), which makes Dioxus more comparable to Flutter or the other Rust GUI toolkits (GPUI, Iced, etc).