Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost as if the language is enough to define good software. What are the merits of what was built?
i can make absolutely awful software in rust
But at least it will have good memory safety :)
Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
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Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#63Best advice I heard regarding reddit: disable old redirect and embrace the new redesign. Outcome - my reddit browsing has become minimal, focused and no longer enjoyable for procrastination.
The worst aspect of the redesign is having to click 40 times to see all the comments in a 200+ comment thread, due to so many being auto-collapsed. Old reddit lets me see more content with far less work.
I still use old reddit and there’s a setting in Preferences to control comment collapsing. Is that setting not also in new reddit?
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#64I think it's time we drop the "written in Rust" qualifier.
Not necessarily, only when memory safety, file size, complexity, and marginal performance over other options aren’t relevant, or are incidental to the main value proposition.
For this particular project, it might not be necessary, but for others it’s useful to know.
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#65I think it's time we drop the "written in Rust" qualifier.
Although it's becoming tiresome I find myself more bothered by software that feels the need to incorporate the programming language into the app name. I think Go best lent itself to this and for a while it was starting to grate on me that "Go" had to be jammed into every app's name. Seems like the app and its purpose should be able to stand on merit alone.
The one exception to this is libraries for that language.
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#66This looks great but warning, the posts are still by redditors, the shrillest most irritating and juvenile group of people on the internet besides Twitter.
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
Because it being written in rust is only added to the title to attract the attention of evangelists. The rest of us don't care what its written in.
FWIW, I really like knowing that X was written in Y. If I'm learning Y, it gives me another thing I could look at and see if I can pick up something useful. If I already know Y, it might still be interesting to see if there's anything special about writing X in Y, instead of or compared to Z.
It's a bit disheartening to watch gripes like this become more and more common on HN. It used to be a place where people were a lot more interested in sharing points of view and exchanging information, than criticizing anything that can be criticized.
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#68videos are loading incredibly slow for me, but not on main reddit. otherwise, pretty sweet!
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#69Best advice I heard regarding reddit: disable old redirect and embrace the new redesign. Outcome - my reddit browsing has become minimal, focused and no longer enjoyable for procrastination.
And I wonder how long the apps which make reddit still enjoyable incl. the one being discussed here would last as API blocking/restrictions are likely in the pipeline, Every other Ad based social network/community platform which initially had open API had done so.
Re: Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
#70I think it's time we drop the "written in Rust" qualifier.
Imagine the chaos at "C compiler written in Rust"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693321 Show HN: Toy C Compiler written in Rust
(the repo is https://github.com/utam0k/r9cc and https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/ is a blog post from 2018 that describes it)
There's also https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater and https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc, but they are inactive. Saltyrust seem pretty complete though.