Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like Tailwind, GPUI Kit components, the community fork drama, and the tiny desktop apps Scott has built with it.
<h3 class="code-line"><a></a>Show Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=00:00">00:00</a> Welcome to Syntax!
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://gpui.rs/">GPUI</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=01:24">01:24</a> Electron, Tauri, and the Trouble With Web Views</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=04:05">04:05</a> Enter GPUI: Why We Don’t Take Money to Talk About Tools</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=05:32">05:32</a> Brought to you by <a href="https://sentry.io/syntax/">Sentry.io</a></li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=05:59">05:59</a> What GPUI Is: GPU Accelerated, Cross Platform, Native All the Way Down</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=06:50">06:50</a> A React Like API in Rust: Divs, Flex, and Chained Methods</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=09:35">09:35</a> Components, Props, and State in GPUI
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://gist.github.com/stolinski/234d65a09d65a81b99d67084841a0d22">Scott’s GPUI Demo Gist</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=11:21">11:21</a> How Much of CSS Does GPUI Actually Reimplement?</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=12:52">12:52</a> Flexbox Everywhere, But Where Is CSS Grid?</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=14:17">14:17</a> Where Does Your App Logic Live? No RPC Layer Needed</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=15:53">15:53</a> Render vs RenderOnce: Stateful and Static Components</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=16:57">16:57</a> GPUI Kit: The shadcn of GPUI</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=18:46">18:46</a> GPUI CE: The Community Fork and Ecosystem Tension</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=21:29">21:29</a> Apps Scott Built With GPUI: Gendo, File Bro, and Mr. Space</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=22:48">22:48</a> Why Tiny Utility Apps Should Stay Tiny</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=24:25">24:25</a> File Bro: File Automations a la Hazel</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=25:27">25:27</a> Mr. Space: Building a macOS Window Manager</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=27:05">27:05</a> The Downsides: No Native UI Elements and No Browser DOM
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://github.com/stolinski/s-stack/tree/main/skills/rust-best-practices">Scott’s Rust Best Practices Skill</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=29:56">29:56</a> Testing GPUI Apps With Jev and the Accessibility Tree
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://github.com/stolinski/gpui-agent">gpui-agent</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=30:39">30:39</a> GPUI Mobile: Experimental, But It Works
<ul>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://gpui-kit.com/docs/mobile/">GPUI Kit Mobile Docs</a></li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-mobile">gpui-mobile</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="has-line-data"><a href="#t=31:52">31:52</a> Final Verdict: GPUI for Personal Desktop Software</li>
</ul>
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