Not requiring Rust as a dependacy (Tauri as an SDK)

[trymeouteh]

For easier installation and project code management, I would like to suggest having Tauri not require Rust as a dependacy. Tauri should still be written in Rust but become a full SDK.

Rust will then become an optional dependacy just like Node is. And developers can simply install the Tauri SDK which is a CLI tool writren in Rust that can compile the app on desktop without having to use Rust as a runtime and to have the ability to have no Rust files in the project directory.

[FabianLars]

I think this came up a few times already. While i agree that it sounds nice, i don't think this is something we can realistically pull off (at least in the foreseeable future).

Somewhat similar to this: There's taurify which pretty much does what you suggest. Disclaimer: it's a paid offering and CrabNebula is my employer so take this with a grain of salt.

[WSH032]

I think #13553 is somewhat related to this issue?

However, Tauri currently relies too much on tauri-cli and tauri-build(build.rs), so it's unlikely that this problem can be elegantly solved in v2. That PR only makes the feature available experimentally (for example, some configurations cannot be set at runtime).

[trymeouteh]

I do not expect this to be resolved in v2, but I would love to see this be the case for v3, making Tauri a good toolchain for making desktop and mobile apps.