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title = "Tech stack"

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order = 3 # Page number after chapter intro
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- rustc: Compiler for node graph generics and custom nodes
- rust-gpu: Compiler backend to generate compute shaders from Rust source code
- wgpu: Portable graphics API for running compute shaders on desktop and web
- Tauri: lightweight desktop web UI shell while the backend runs natively (experimental)
<!-- - Vello: GPU-accelerated vector graphics renderer -->
<!-- - COSMIC Text: Text shaping and typesetting -->
<!-- - Wasmer or Wasmtime: Portable, sandboxed runtime for custom nodes -->
<!-- - Tokio: parallelized job execution in the node graph pipeline -->
<!-- - Xilem: High-performance native UI framework, to replace Tauri when ready -->