C# / .NET Native Interop with Tauri

[velocitysystems]

Hello! 👋 I’m currently evaluating Tauri to replace React Native for a cross platform iOS, Android and Windows app.

Tauri 2.x is a great leap forward in being able to write plugins in Swift/Kotlin, however for Windows you are limited to interacting with Win32 APIs via Rust. What is the feasibility of adding interop support for writing plugins in C# with .NET 8/9 or .NET Native? There are many new AOT features available and 100,000s of NuGet packages available in the ecosystem.

Reading through the documentation it appears it would require:

• Interop support
• Tooling support
• Debugging support

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot's webinar mentioned the prospect of additional language support in Tauri 3.x. Is this an effort that the community can also be involved in?

[FabianLars]

Is this an effort that the community can also be involved in?

as it stands right now, it's more like we need as much community involvement as possible. we currently don't even have time to steward the general approach tbh. The general tracking issue is this one btw #4670

[velocitysystems]

Thanks @FabianLars. Will give this some further thought. Should a separate tracking issue be created for each additional proposed language? That would make it easier to track and discuss language-specific requirements.

[FabianLars]

i'd prefer not to, at least not yet.

[snspinn]

What about the interface when running as a sidecar? Seems to be text/stdout only but can this be "streaming" or does this work with one-shot binaries?