Skipping the infamous Electron: Why I chose Rust + Tauri v2 from the start
Building desktop software today often seems synonymous with giving away all your RAM to Chromium. With PowerFolder, I refused to follow that trend from the get-go. I never even considered Electron. Instead, I bet entirely on Rust + Tauri v2 right from the start. The performance leap is massive, and the technical reason behind it is super simple:
1️⃣ No Chromium & Node bloat: Instead of bundling an entire browser per app, Tauri relies on the OS's native WebView (Windows/macOS/Linux). The final binary is tiny, and idle RAM consumption is ridiculously low.
2️⃣ Rust Backend: While the frontend remains web-based, all the heavy lifting, file system access, and core logic run on Rust. You get Rust's memory safety with C/C++ level speeds, without a bloated runtime sitting in the middle.
It's the perfect balance: the aesthetics and dev-experience of the web on the frontend, with the relentless performance of native code on the backend.
I just launched PowerFolder built on this exact architecture, joining my broader suite of 7 native apps published under Yeib. I'd love for the tech-savvy crowd to test it out and give me your thoughts on the performance. You can check out PowerFolder and my entire app portfolio here:
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