Tauri brings Rust to the JS Party

KBall and Nick interview one of the leaders of the Tauri project about this next generation app bundling toolkit: the security, size, and performance features that make it special (and dare we say, better than Electron?), and what’s coming next.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Tauri
• Tauri isolation
• Tauri Discord
• Awesome Tauri
• Padloc
• Galata.app
• Recut
• curses

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(00:21) - Sponsor: Sentry
(02:17) - It's party time, y'all
(03:12) - Welcoming Daniel
(07:57) - Bringing Rust to a JS Party
(10:34) - If you've never worked in Rust before
(13:13) - Rust + TypeScript
(19:57) - Sponsor: KBall Coaching
(21:13) - What makes Tauri special
(28:02) - Tauri security
(33:43) - Tauri performance
(38:26) - Tauri power
(41:56) - Getting started
(46:43) - Getting involved
(49:47) - Cool Tauri apps
(52:13) - What's coming next
(53:55) - Wrapping up
(55:10) - Outro