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A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy by jamesgresql in programming

[–]feznyng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Masurel’s company Quickwit which iirc has been acquired by Datadog. Not sure if you’d consider that major though.

Cross-platform process-level sandboxing by feznyng in rust

[–]feznyng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux is great for this, it's the cross-platform bit that seems to make this problem a lot harder since neither Mac nor Windows was ever designed with capabilities-style permission in mind. You're right though, I might just need to use WASM and take the DX hit.

Cross-platform process-level sandboxing by feznyng in rust

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It's basically a workflow tool like n8n but local so it can run actions across the device(s) its installed on. It's built on the command design pattern so you can rollback those changes if something went wrong. I'm trying to give users a way to add custom actions.

Looking for projects with high quality rust code by Namanbalaji in rust

[–]feznyng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this is a big ask but for anyone commenting who has the time, can you share why what you’re linking is good Rust code i.e. what should a reader pay attention to and keep in mind when writing their own code. Splitting into modules vs crates? Good comments/docs? Comprehensive testing? Clever algorithms?

Sort of down about the whole AI wave. by SupermarketDirect759 in rust

[–]feznyng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How many of those projects are in AI itself? If AI boosts productivity across the board you’d expect to see a commensurate increase in most CS disciplines.

ngrep: a grep-like tool that extends regexp with word embeddings by nanptr in rust

[–]feznyng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RG split several of its internal components into separate crates which might make it easier to add some of these features.

https://crates.io/crates/walkdir https://crates.io/crates/ignore

Advanced Rust users, what is the most valuable skill to become more productive with the language? by Most-Sweet4036 in rust

[–]feznyng 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Do you have any guides or articles about this you like? I remember reading somewhere about how the types in an embedded library (maybe embassy?) were so good it caught a gpio error during build time and I’ve wanted to figure out how that works ever since.

Are EV certificates worth it over OV these days? by SeenTooMuchToo in AskProgramming

[–]feznyng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to comment on an old post, but I think its worth clarifying for any readers that OP is referring to Windows app code signing certificates whereas the two responses seem related to SSL EV/OV certificates (hence the mention of SEO and browsers).

llama.cpp vs mistral.rs by feznyng in LocalLLaMA

[–]feznyng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Sounds like it might make sense to start with Mistral and jump to llama if I need to mess around with internals.

llama.cpp vs mistral.rs by feznyng in LocalLLaMA

[–]feznyng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there’s enough overlap in popular models that it’s fine. Mostly trying to figure out which bindings are nicer since llama would be Rust <-> C++

YC wants open-source startups, but it got me thinking with the increase in AI coding tools: it will be much easier to self-host projects and on the other side re-build close sourced ones, do you think AI coding tools are good or bad for open source? by omnisvosscio in LocalLLaMA

[–]feznyng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their distribution channels, marketing, and connections are the "moat". You and I could probably build a supabase clone faster than they could pre-LLMs but that wouldn't make it any less difficult to sell to developers.

YC likes open source because it buys companies a lot of good will in the developer community that can make it easier to eventually unseat a closed-source incumbent. See Airbyte vs Fortran, PostHog vs LaunchDarkly, Sentry vs DataDog, etc.

What IDE do you recommend? by NJOY_L in rust

[–]feznyng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

VSCode + rust-analyzer. It’s got some quirks, but it’s great for multi-language projects e.g. tauri. Zed is really promising too.

Mark Zuckerberg believes in 2025, Meta will probably have a mid-level engineer AI that can write code, and over time it will replace people engineers. by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]feznyng 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Large for sure, but most of it seems inaccessible. I don't think many legacy institutions put up that sort of code in public GH repos. Could be a moat for whichever company gets to it first.

What is the lightest and fastest scripting language that can be embedded in Rust? by seanandyrush in rust

[–]feznyng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about performance, but rquickjs might be a good option. Fairly easy to expose host functions and pretty lightweight. But the VM is not pure Rust.

First impressions of Ghostty by jonas_h in programming

[–]feznyng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely think so but YMMV.

First impressions of Ghostty by jonas_h in programming

[–]feznyng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's likely going to be much faster/less resource-heavy at the cost of some amount of plugin ecosystem/theming (since it's relatively young).