All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion.

Waiting for a full AI response before showing anything feels broken in 2026. Streaming makes the UX feel instant. Here's how I implemented Gemini streaming in Rust with Tauri events.

The Approach

Gemini supports server-sent events (SSE) for streaming responses. The flow:

Rust backend opens an SSE connection to the Gemini API