Since people keep bringing up tauri, here’s the comparison made in the README:
Dioxus vs Tauri
Tauri is a framework for building desktop (and soon, mobile) apps where your frontend is written in a web-based framework like React, Vue, Svelte, etc. Whenever you need to do native work, you can write Rust functions and call them from your frontend.
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Natively Rust: Tauri’s architecture limits your UI to either JavaScript or WebAssembly. With Dioxus, your Rust code is running natively on the user’s machine, letting you do things like spawning threads, accessing the filesystem, without any IPC bridge. This drastically simplifies your app’s architecture and makes it easier to build. You can build a Tauri app with Dioxus-Web as a frontend if you’d like.
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Different scopes: Tauri needs to support JavaScript and its complex build tooling, limiting the scope of what you can do with it. Since Dioxus is exclusively focused on Rust, we’re able to provide extra utilities like Server Functions, advanced bundling, and a native renderer.
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Shared DNA: While Tauri and Dioxus are separate projects, they do share libraries like Tao and Wry: windowing and webview libraries maintained by the Tauri team.
What makes Servo a better bet than Ladybird? Who backs it?