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  • Oscar@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Brace StyleEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Linux uses 8 spaces. Excerpt from the official style guide:

    Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

    Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where a block of control starts and ends. Especially when you’ve been looking at your screen for 20 straight hours, you’ll find it a lot easier to see how the indentation works if you have large indentations.

    Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

    In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning.

    The reasoning seems sound, but I still prefer 4 personally.

  • Oscar@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•Is this the electron-alternative we've been waiting for?English
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.