Build tiny multi-platform apps with Tauri and web tech (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we’re talking with Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to their recent 1.0 release. Tauri is often compared to Electron - it’s a toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. It was built for the security-focused, privacy-respecting, and environmentally-conscious software engineering community. The core libraries are written in Rust and the UI layer can be written using virtually any frontend framework. We get into all the details, why Rust, how the project was formed, their resistance (thus far) to venture capital, their full commitment to the freedom virtues of open source, and all the technical bits you need to know to consider it for your next multi-platform project.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• tauri.app
• Tauri 1.0 Release
• Tauri prerequisites
• Tauri SOCIAL_CONTRACT.md
• Awesome Tauri
• The Changelog #470: Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors with Jessica Lord
• rust-lang/rustlings

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!