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		trinovantes on June 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust But Electron apps can also launch separate programs written in any language with child_process.exec() e.g. ffmpeg wrapper GUIs

nu11ptr on June 16, 2022 | [–]

I believe Tauri has "sidecar" which does the same thing

thayne on June 17, 2022 | [–]

But if you write your "backend" in rust, then with tauri you don't need a separate process, which may or may not be important depending on how your application works, and your tolerance for additional overhead.

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