the__alchemist 6 days ago

As a rust developer, I do too! Those are not representative of rust GUI/3D etc desktop applications. I've made some pretty complicated stuff with 2D and 3D graphics, lots of functionality; expected size is 5-15Mb on Windows, and 10-25Mb on Linux. Less if you don't need 3D.

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anthk 6 days ago

Strip the Linux binaries with strip(1).

correa_brian 6 days ago

What do you think would be more in line with what you've seen in the past? There's definitely room to keep optimizing.

the__alchemist 6 days ago

<25Mb for the executable. For the use case the web page desribes, probably <15Mb. It usually comes down to dependencies used.

katrinarodri 6 days ago

Interesting. I'd love to get our app size down further, under 15MB would be great.

tonyhart7 6 days ago

is there a UI framework production ready yet in rust??? because for Tauri at least you can use JS which is fine

_bent 6 days ago

yeah slint, which is most similar to Qt

see https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...

fkyoureadthedoc 6 days ago

lol when you click through to this site from HN it redirects to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fa...

if you open in new tab or copy/paste in new tab it does not.

sedatk 6 days ago

Funny for sure, but not novel. JWZ also doesn't let his web site linked from HN. Example link (that only works properly when you copy paste, opinionated rejection otherwise): https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/

the__alchemist 6 days ago

EGUI

airstrike 6 days ago

iced is the best IMHO