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In honor of Webpack 5.0 being released and dramatically easing integration of WebAssembly, it's time
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to revisit previous work done to use Electron as a backend for Rust GUI applications.
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Structure:
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- Why did I want to do this?: Potential to use Electron+WASM as Rust GUI; not truly native, but at
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least experimenting with.
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- Problems: Hard to use ecosystem, crates don't compile, MIME types, async loading
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- What changed?: Webpack makes WASM loading asynchronous and easy in v5, Chrome now sets MIME type
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- Demonstration and screenshots
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- Closing thoughts: is it worth it?
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I wasn't expecting to write this, but it's 2020 and we could all use a win. When last I addressed
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using WASM + Electron to write desktop applications in Rust, there were ultimately too many issues
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to recommend this combination as feasible. Since then, there's been a lot of progress, and after
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