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points by ajross 9 hours ago | 0 comments

Exactly. This Discord Windows 11 rust app doesn't run on Mint or AOSP or an iPad and won't without extensive porting.

That can be done. It can be done well. It's not (or rather never has been) cheap or flexible or agile (in the market, not SWE sense). People love HTML/CSS/JS for very good reasons, and have been willing to accept the resulting tradeoffs.

Maybe that's changing now that you can vibe-port a lot of this stuff. We'll see.

[–] NetMageSCW 8 hours ago

The article says they can use the Rust code with wasm as the iOS app and that includes iPad and Android. And Mint is just Linux so it should run fine, just like Zed.

[–] dmix 5 hours ago

Using Rust/wasm for a mobile apps sounds crazier to me than using Electron on desktop. I'm not sure of the details there but the APIs/SDKs bringing consistency is one of the best parts of mobile. There's less of an argument for that on desktop which moves slower and is mouse/keyboard instead of complex set of touch workflows, paging, and notification schemes.