This is the story of how Rust dramatically improving Figma’s server-side performance (one of their most important features). The multiplayer server we launched with two years ago is written in TypeScript and has served us surprisingly well, but Figma is rapidly growing more popular and that server isn’t going to be able to keep up. We decided to fix this by rewriting it in Rust.
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Install this and leave your co-workers asking, “where does s/he get those wonderful toys?”
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A desktop Kanban board app built with Elm and Rust. How do they do it sans Electron? it uses native WebView (WebKit for Linux/macOS, and MSHTML on Windows) For more details see here. I’d love to see how this app performs in terms of memory use when compared to an Electron-based version. How big are the wins? Is the trade-off worth it? Sounds like great fodder for blog post…
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Want to try WASM before you buy WASM? You’re in luck! I found this while prepping for this week episode of The Changelog with Lin Clark. It’s really well made and definitely lowered the barrier for me to tinker with both WebAssembly and Rust. Worth a 🔖 for sure.
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wasm-pack is a tool for assembling and packaging Rust crates that target WebAssembly. These packages can be published to the npm Registry and used alongside other packages. This means you can use them side-by-side with JS and other packages, and in many kind of applications, be it a Node.js server side app, a client-side application bundled by Webpack, or any other sort of application that uses npm dependencies. We’re recording a show with Lin Clark today and will definitely ask her all about the progress Mozilla folks have been making on merging the JavaScript and Rust worlds via WebAssembly. Exciting times!
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It’s a reimagining of the Singularity OS of old, using new technologies like WebAssembly and Rust. Using an intermediate language as a compile target for applications allows for architecture agnosticism and interesting optimizations that would not be possible on conventional OSes. Here’s to the crazy ones. 🍻
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Spotifyd streams music just like the official client, but is more lightweight, and supports more platforms. Spotifyd also supports the Spotify Connect protocol, which makes it show up as a device that can be controlled from the official clients. There was previously a spotifyd written in C, but apparently Spotify killed the library it used, so they had to rewrite from scratch. ¯\(ツ)/¯
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Inspired by Vim’s modal editing, but built to be as simple as possible. This is no fly-by-night proof of concept. It’s 3 years in the making and looks extremely polished. I’m definitely going to give Amp a test-drive. 👌
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Whether its compiling some fake code, downloading some fake files, or inspecting some fake hexidecimals, if you need to feign real work to impress your [boss|colleagues|s.o.], genact has you covered.
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This framework is very much in the proof of concept stage. There’s still a lot to do. The framework provides a seamless GraphQL interface for Rust servers. It is type-safe, ergonomic, very low boilerplate, and customizable. It has potential to be very fast. I believe that it can be one of the best experiences for GraphQL development in any language, as well as one of the fastest implementations (in part, because it seems to me that Rust and GraphQL are a great fit). Also, check out ~> 2018: The year we learn Rust 1.0 and Rust in 2018
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We’re a week late on this one, but excited to see Sean and the Diesel team hit the big One O! For those who don’t know, Diesel is: a safe, extensible query builder and ORM If you want to learn more about Diesel straight from the horse’s mouth, go back and listen to Episode #270.
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Inspired by Elm and React.
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Zero-details, privacy-focused embeddable file system. It achieves privacy by encapsulating files and directories into an encrypted repo, then provides a virtual file system and exclusive access to authorized apps. But! Buyer beware: Zbox is under active development, we are not responsible for any data loss or leak caused by using it. Always back up your files and use at your own risk!
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a SSH Agent that allow users to authenticate to UNIX/Linux SSH servers using the Secure Enclave My Touch Bar Macbook Pro may have just found its killer app.
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