Porting my Electron app to Rust: 675 MB to 91 MB
An indie developer describes rewriting the Mac capture app Jot from Electron to Rust on the Rune GPU UI framework, cutting disk size from 675 MB to 91 MB and the dmg from 302 MB to 44 MB. It covers a single-process design without IPC, isolating OS code in jot-os, a state machine for the Shift Shift shortcut, and keeping the note format backward compatible.
What this means for indie developers：Indie developers with bloated Electron apps get a concrete, reusable playbook for slimming down and restructuring, including cross-platform and backward-compatibility lessons.