[HN Gopher] Dioxus - Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust
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       Dioxus - Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust
        
       Author : linkdd
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2025-03-17 01:43 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | tmpfs wrote:
       | Really hope this project succeeds as somebody heavily invested in
       | a Flutter app with a Rust backend Dioxus could be great for us so
       | we will continue to follow closely.
       | 
       | Flutters hot reloading is awesome but some days I feel like it is
       | death by a thousand cuts working with Flutter (so many unresolved
       | bugs) so to have a cross-platform framework that wouldn't require
       | Flutter and Dart would be great.
       | 
       | Wish the Dioxus team a lot of success!
        
         | mdhb wrote:
         | What kinds of bugs are you talking about. I've used it for
         | years and it's been nothing but incredibly stable.
        
         | veidr wrote:
         | Same! I inherited a Flutter app from a previous team, and while
         | it's OK it feels kind of like developing on a Galapagos island
         | -- by which I mean, we'll never use Dart in any other context,
         | and Flutter's web story doesn't really work for most kinds of
         | apps).
         | 
         | I think Dioxus actually fits into a fairly unique set of slots.
         | There's Tauri, with which it shares a lot of stuff, but Tauri's
         | web story is mostly "build it yourself". There's Leptos, which
         | arguably has a better web app story, but lacks most of the
         | rest.
         | 
         | It is also heartening to see how these projects really do share
         | a lot of the building blocks and don't seem to be overly
         | competitive.
        
       | esafak wrote:
       | Isn't Rust too low level for regular back end development, let
       | alone the front end? I don't get the appeal, and I think it would
       | be hard to hire for.
        
         | mattrighetti wrote:
         | > Isn't Rust too low level for regular back end development
         | 
         | What do you mean by low level? To be honest, I've been using
         | Rust on the backend for two years now and I've been loving it.
         | It's reliable and fast, minimal memory footprint and you don't
         | even have to be a Rust expert if you're not trying to squeeze
         | every single bit of performance from your system.
        
         | coaksford wrote:
         | It seems shaky trying to apply labels like "low level" or "high
         | level" to Rust, it covers a very broad range of these "levels",
         | just short of C and Zig on the low level end (at least, without
         | becoming substantially less ergonomic), and just short of
         | Haskell at the high level end. Rust definitely gets more
         | attention for its low level characteristics where its safety
         | features set it apart from its peers in that space, but it's
         | still suitable outside that space, just less distinctively
         | suitable, and so less widely discussed.
         | 
         | Some other languages will certainly have more developed
         | ecosystems and frameworks available, but the purpose of things
         | like Dioxus is to provide that. Instead of trying to put things
         | into boxes with labels and deduce from there, you'll get more
         | insight from trying it out and seeing where it works and where
         | it actually struggles.
        
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