I built a Tauri app for my home lab

I’ve been leaning a lot more into AI coding lately.

It’s made me rethink a couple things:

• I can use any language
• Reliability and error detection at compile time is more important than ever

Rust is a trade-off between compile-time and memory safety at the cost of developer experience and cognitive load. It takes a lot longer to develop a Rust app than a Go one and the results for most app’s (that I would built) aren’t worth the “Rust cost” IMO.

AI kind of changes the game here.

It iterates so fast that Rust on-boarding and learning can be “just-in-time” or “just-enough”. Now you can “write” Rust and learn it as you go - it’s like learning to code by reading someone else’s code except its your code for your idea.

And, now you get the sweet compile time safety. It also has the benefit of keeping AI in check - it writes something and breaks an contract somewhere, well it’ll detect that and the knock out the fix super fast.

I still love Go, I still opt for it (for 95% of things) but think AI is changing the way we look at certain objectives.

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So I wrote a Tauri app. It’s a MacOS dock based app for monitoring all my Knative applications status. It connects to your kube context (so technically could monitor any Knative stack).

It can:

• ping it (to wake it up)
• view its ingress (if its serving a page/API etc will show it)
• view logs

I don’t need too much more than that.

I found the Tauri experience to be top-notch compared to Wails (a Go Tauri like app builder).

Repo: https://github.com/danielmichaels/knative-dash

Tags

#rust #ai #tauri