Tod Kurt (todbot)3d ago
Dangit I think I might need to actually learn Rust. In Electron, a minimal app to control blink(1)s weighs in at 285 MB on disk. An equivalent Tauri Rust app is 5.5 MB!
https://github.com/todbot/electron-blink1-toy/
https://github.com/todbot/tauri-blink1-toy/
Show threadPaul Stoffregen3d ago

@todbot If you're already good with C++, maybe consider wxWidgets?

While a bit more than a blink example, this little program I wrote a couple years ago weighs in at 6.5MB for a static linked Windows app. Linux build is smaller, and MacOS larger but due to universal binary (both ARM64 & X86-64).

https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/Phazerville-Screen-Capture

Great thing about wxWidgets is you get a native GUI app on all 3 systems. It's the GUI toolkit KiCAD uses. If you know and like C++, wxWidgets is really worthwhile.

GitHub - PaulStoffregen/Phazerville-Screen-Capture

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Show threadTod Kurt (todbot)
@PaulStoffregen oh wow, I used wxWidgets a *long* time ago! I know Arduino/embedded C++ and the more “real” C++ stuff is just too out there for me. Glad to see it’s still around tho! I remember liking it better than Qt (which I ended up using for a huge app for other reasons)
Apr 6 at 7:20pmMona for Mac
Show threadPaul Stoffregen3d ago

@todbot wxWidgets isn't the simplest, but with it's relatively new Bind() function building a small GUI takes relatively little code. You can see that little app has under 200 lines for the GUI, but manages to implement a window with a few small menus, graphical copy & paste, and ~30Hz screen update from a USB device.

Huge advantage of C++ is you get best access native OS APIs. If you look at usb.c in my app, it has native WIN32, Linux udev, and MacOS IOKit to discover and use USB devices.

Show threadrrmutt2d ago
@todbot @PaulStoffregen WxPython is worth a look: cross platform, you can make an .exe with PyInstaller.