Our API client is a 29 MB binary and starts in 0.1s. Here's the Tauri vs Electron footprint, with numbers (opens in new tab)

Every dev tool I install seems to weigh more than my IDE. My API client, the thing I use to fire off HTTP requests, sat at a few hundred megabytes on disk and used close to a gigabyte of RAM just sitting open in the background. When we started Ironcall, keeping it small and fast wasn't a bullet point on a feature list. It was the whole reason we bothered. This post is about one decision that came out of that goal: using Rust and Tauri instead of Electron. What it costs, what it buys, and the ...