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Top 23 Rust Window Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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FlyingCarpet
Cross-platform AirDrop. File transfer between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No network infrastructure required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
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hayabusa
Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
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It's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project.
Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem)
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen...
It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.
Project mention: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01> I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a native Linux AI-assisted assistant.
On Mac when I press Command + Space, it brings up Spotlight search
That can't easily be added to be the equivalent of some kind of LLM prompt on GNOME/KDE/XFCE?
I don't quite know what you'd ask it/do with it that would be of much value? Seems like a quicker way/a wrapper around either asking an LLM questions via CLI or basically Electron wrapping HTML (like this https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT)?
Project mention: Bebop v3: a fast, modern replacement to Protocol Buffers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-12This is awesome. I'd love to have upstream support in Wasmer ( https://wasmer.io )
Sniffnet is an open source, Rust-based network monitoring tool I’ve been working on for almost two years now.
Project mention: 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26I'd say Rust does have that big ticket ecosystem push. Microsoft has been embracing Rust lately, with things like official Windows bindings [1].
The bigger problem is just inertia: large game engines are enormous.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
If you want a standalone cross platform text expander I currently enjoy using Espanso[1]
[1]: https://espanso.org/
I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.
This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.
[1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.
[3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.
To compile a program with musl on a glibc system you can use cross-rs!
Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.
I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/
Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).
Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.
[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit
Project mention: Apnic: Cgnat is harming internet innovation (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26[3] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/1104
Project mention: Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-10I’ve been using display-switch[0] for this for a while now. No problems whatsoever. Works on windows/mac/linux.
[0] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch
Project mention: Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-29There’s already a DFIR log tool named chainsaw: https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
Project mention: Hayabusa: Sigma-based forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-24
Project mention: Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-05Vtables are pretty solved as well. I do a lot of Windows COM interop. Using the `windows` crate, vtables for COM interfaces are relegated to an implementation detail - instead you simply implement a (typically safe!) trait:
https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3...
Which can then be converted to a refcounted smart pointer:
https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3...
All driven by win32 sdk parsing and metadata.
But suppose we want to roll our own, because we tend to prefer `winapi` but it lacks definition. That's not too terrible either:
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
I could more heavily lean on my macros ala `windows`, but I went the route of manual control for better doc comments, more explicit control of thread safety traits to match the existing C++ codebase, etc.
Is there some pointer casting? Yes. Is it annoying or likely to be what breaks? No. What is annoying?
• Stacked borrows and narrowing spatial provenance ( https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/1025 - this can be "solved" by sticking to pointers ala `windows`, or by choosing a different provenance model like rustc might be doing?)
• Guarding against panics unwinding over an FFI boundary. This is at least being worked on, but remains unfinished ( https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2945-c-unwind-abi.html )
• Edge case ABI weirdness specific to C++ methods ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220113-00/?p=10... , https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/523 )
Project mention: Saving Linux Desktop. Unifying repositories is the only way | /r/linux | 2023-12-07I don't understand why more people aren't aware of this: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade -I use it for Linux and Windows.
I really hope that people try Flutter as Rust's GUI with Rinf. Flutter doesn't involve webview, which is more like native.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Window projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | alacritty | 52,767 |
| 2 | ChatGPT | 46,892 |
| 3 | wasmer | 17,786 |
| 4 | sniffnet | 13,822 |
| 5 | tokei | 10,006 |
| 6 | windows-rs | 9,839 |
| 7 | espanso | 9,141 |
| 8 | yazi | 8,032 |
| 9 | komorebi | 6,722 |
| 10 | cross | 5,938 |
| 11 | watchexec | 4,893 |
| 12 | winit | 4,411 |
| 13 | FlyingCarpet | 3,063 |
| 14 | trippy | 3,019 |
| 15 | display-switch | 2,775 |
| 16 | chainsaw | 2,547 |
| 17 | chat-ai-desktop | 1,953 |
| 18 | hayabusa | 1,938 |
| 19 | winapi-rs | 1,795 |
| 20 | sysinfo | 1,781 |
| 21 | kondo | 1,616 |
| 22 | topgrade | 1,553 |
| 23 | rinf | 1,452 |
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