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Why I Ditched Electron for Tauri

BestCodes on February 26, 2025

Recently, I released CodeQuill 2.0, changing nearly 20,000 lines of code and completely rewriting the CodeQuill codebase in TypeScript and Rust. Pa...
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Ben Halpern •

Tauri definitely is interesting.

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BestCodes •

Definitely! Do you plan to try it out on something?

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Ben Halpern •

It depends on bandwidth, but I'm trying to find time to experiment!

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BestCodes •

dev.to desktop app πŸ‘€

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Alternate Existance •

nice article. i just dont want to learn rust tho~

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BestCodes •

You don't really have to learn Rust to use Tauri, it does the Rust stuff for you.

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Alternate Existance •

cool

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Rob Benzo •

interesting :)

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BestCodes •

Thanks for reading!

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Ozgur •

Your Mac app gives this error "CodeQuill.app is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

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BestCodes •

Thanks for letting me know. I don't have a Mac, so I have to build the Mac app on GitHub Actions and hope for the best. 😒

I assume you are using the release files here:
github.com/The-Best-Codes/codequil...
Are you using the .dmg file or something else?

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Ozgur •

Yes I've downloaded the dmg from there. You have to create an Apple Developer account and notarize your app otherwise nobody can use it. I mean there are still ways to use the damaged apps but it requires some hacks.

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BestCodes •

I knew you had to do that for iOS, but I was not aware that it's required for Mac apps too. Thanks for letting me know!

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K Om Senapati •

Amazing

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BestCodes •

Thanks for reading πŸ’š