Years ago I hand-wrote a Google Chat desktop app in Electron over several months. I vibe-coded the entire thing again in Tauri v2 — in less than a day — without knowing Rust. It's now at a stable v1.0.1.
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The Electron Era: Months of Honest, Manual Labour 😅
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So I built it. In Electron. By hand.
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