Museeks is now built on top of Tauri!

[martpie]

Museeks is a simple, clean and cross-platform music player (https://museeks.io/)

I have finally released Museeks 0.20, which transitioned the app from Electron to Tauri 2.0, which made the app:

• ↘️ 20x smaller binaries
• ↘️ 2.5x more cpu-efficient
• ↘️ 1.6x more memory efficient

There are many other improvements not related to Tauri that I will leave to the release notes.

I started playing with Tauri a few years ago, but some critical features were missing at the time (custom plugins, native context menus, runtime theme update, etc). I resumed my work earlier this year playing Tauri 2.0 alpha, and gradually started fixing feature after feature, every other month. I am not content enough with the result I feel I am ready to "send it to prod". :)

The road was bumpy, but I would say it was worth it, as much for my users as for me, as it allowed me to learn a bit of Rust on the way!

Some features could unfortunately not be fully ported, due to long standing bugs/issues, mostly within webviews.

• custom audio output is impossible right now
• windows drop-event is broken
• no thumbar integratiion for windows
• no dock custom context menu for macOS
• very limited localstorage on macOS
• a few CSS and JS weirdnesses across platforms
• • a few other things...

Tauri comes with good arguments though:

• mini binaries
• stellar DevX compared to Electron (Forge came too late, with too many issues)
• GitHub action
• very good plugins (now)

But also some downsides:

• x-platform issues do exist
• Custom commands on plugins are a cumbersome setup
• The GitHub action is quite limited still
• Rust changes are really slow to rebuild, it's quite frustrating to debug things there
• No (or hard) x-platform compilation

Overall, my feeling is the following: for a personal project, I am very happy with Tauri. For a business, I feel Electron's consistency across platforms is a veryyyy big selling point.

Happy to get any feedback on the app, I'll be monitoring things as it's quite a big change for an app :)

Thank you to the Tauri team for all their work, Tauri is an excellent tool! 🚀