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Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Post by mixedCase »

Bummer about Electron. My workstation can take it with flying colors, but I also work from a laptop at times and just having 3-4 instances of VS Code, a browser, and a communication app drags my poor 16GB RAM T490 through the mud, to the point I'm working on replacing VS Code despite how fast it helps me get started with new languages compared with Neovim.

FWIW: I would pay 100$ yearly for a JetBrains like license to a solution like this written in something like Qt or Gtk that could successfully replace DBeaver for me.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Post by justindeguzman »

alexvoda wrote: post #10

>“Why is Arctype built using Electron?” Have you considered transitioning to something that uses the system WebView like Tauri or NeutralinoJS? If you did, what were the blockers?

We started building the app about two years ago where these frameworks were a lot less mature (and I still think Electron is the most battle-tested today). If we were to start over, I'd definitely consider Tauri or using Rust directly for a lot of the app. I suspect over time we'll slowly transition parts of the app to more native code.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Post by sam0x17 »

mixedCase wrote: post #11

Bummer about Electron. My workstation can take it with flying colors, but I also work from a laptop at times and just having 3-4 instances of VS Code, a browser, and a communication app drags my poor 16GB RAM T490 through the mud, to the point I'm working on replacing VS Code despite how fast it helps me get started with new languages compared with Neovim. FWIW: I would pay 100$ yearly for a JetBrains like license to…

This is one reason I'm bullish on some of the new UI frameworks coming out of the Rust community in particular. For example https://github.com/iced-rs/iced looks quite good.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#14

Post by mhamann »

As the only SQL client with native support for PlanetScale, Arctype is definitely useful from that perspective. I also like the UI and find it pretty easy to use.

In my admittedly limited experience using it, I found that some MySql datatypes seemed to be missing from the table editor (e.g., `TEXT`). Not sure why this is and I haven't had time to dig further.

It's promising, and way better than even some of the other paid options. (Like, what is DBeaver even doing??)

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Post by eatonphil »

mhamann wrote: post #14

As the only SQL client with native support for PlanetScale, Arctype is definitely useful from that perspective. I also like the UI and find it pretty easy to use. In my admittedly limited experience using it, I found that some MySql datatypes seemed to be missing from the table editor (e.g., `TEXT`). Not sure why this is and I haven't had time to dig further. It's promising, and way better than even some of the other…

DBeaver is the main database IDE I've used. What are your issues with it? The UI is not the most beautiful. My biggest gripe that I can remember was that I needed an extension for SSH that kept getting uninstalled after every update of DBeaver.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Post by justindeguzman »

mhamann wrote: post #14

As the only SQL client with native support for PlanetScale, Arctype is definitely useful from that perspective. I also like the UI and find it pretty easy to use. In my admittedly limited experience using it, I found that some MySql datatypes seemed to be missing from the table editor (e.g., `TEXT`). Not sure why this is and I haven't had time to dig further. It's promising, and way better than even some of the other…

We <3 PlanetScale. If we have some data types that aren't showing up for you, please let me know at justin at arctype.com, we'll get those fixed asap!

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#17

Post by Diggsey »

There's a million fancy looking database clients, and yet I'm still using the crappy built-in MySQL Workbench that crashes if you look at it the wrong way.

Why? Because I need to be able to do more than just run queries. I need to be able to manage users & permissions, see the current server configuration, kill connections from other clients if necessary, etc.

The collaboration features are a nice touch, that certainly makes this stand out compared to others, but if I still need to use another client as well then it's just not going to work...

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#18

Post by ysleepy »

I just downloaded it to try it out but it connects to like 4 domains on startup and after blocking internet access I cannot continue by clicking "Continue without account". I downloaded 240MiB, it shouldn't need to download any more stuff to run.

arctype.com, intercom.io, sentry.io and s3.amazonaws.com.

These all happen while the window isn't even loaded on first start.

I get that I'm not entitled to anything, but jesus, I dislike the electron age. Well, not that other apps are much better, I'm just sad.

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