As a rust developer, I do too! Those are not representative of rust GUI/3D etc desktop applications. I've made some pretty complicated stuff with 2D and 3D graphics, lots of functionality; expected size is 5-15Mb on Windows, and 10-25Mb on Linux. Less if you don't need 3D.
Strip the Linux binaries with strip(1).
What do you think would be more in line with what you've seen in the past? There's definitely room to keep optimizing.
<25Mb for the executable. For the use case the web page desribes, probably <15Mb. It usually comes down to dependencies used.
Interesting. I'd love to get our app size down further, under 15MB would be great.
is there a UI framework production ready yet in rust??? because for Tauri at least you can use JS which is fine
yeah slint, which is most similar to Qt
see https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...
lol when you click through to this site from HN it redirects to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fa...
if you open in new tab or copy/paste in new tab it does not.
Funny for sure, but not novel. JWZ also doesn't let his web site linked from HN. Example link (that only works properly when you copy paste, opinionated rejection otherwise): https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/
EGUI
iced is the best IMHO