🧙Tsatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

@cwebber :þ

I think I'll try to collect any blog posts I find with insight and clues to good #Rust programming with the hashtag #RustWisdom

This is the first such collected blog post: https://jwilm.io/blog/from-str-to-cow/

@w84death wow, that marquee is distractingly hard to read / focus on.
Is that because it's a gifv or..?

@inmysocks can you say a bit more about what you mean by "where phones don't succeed"? Maybe just examples?

I'm not sure what you're going for there, but it sounds like I agree.

@inmysocks possibly, I'm not that well versed in the goals of phone OSs.

But I know that no phone OS (except the late Firefox OS) would be designed to go all the way up to web standards for doing UI.

The neat thing would be to have a single project/context that would let you build UI on multiple levels from Web Standards to "Almost Bare Metal"-OpenGL/Blitting.

For this to be feasible and usable, there should be adequate intermediate interfaces for e.g. rendering custom stuff on the screen.

And modules should be available for anything that a browser does automatically; menus, history, file download, etc.

#crazyidea

Modular browsers, in such a way that a full browser would have both HTML parsing, CSS support and fancy multimedia rendering and all the bells and whistles.

But it's modular and extensible enough that app developers can _use the parts they need_ to build their web standard adjacent desktop apps.

Need a fast rendering engine with excellent font and multimedia support? Use that.
Need to show an embedded webpage? Load html+css+js support dynamically.

@ckeen if they're rendering everything on the canvas, the links aren't easily clickable anyway!

And their reason for using canvas instead of DOM: Speed.
DOM is too slow to run a terminal emulator in, AKA Electron is too slow to run a terminal emulator in.

@ckeen I think it's kinda funny that they've moved away from using the DOM to a canvas based rendering method.

Canvas is just a 2D bitmap that you write to each frame. == a framebuffer.

It could probably be optimised from an electron app to a node.js app, and avoid most of the browser engine.

@sikkdays audio equipment setups are like gases:

Gases expand to fill any container.

Audio setups expand to include any equipment available.

@witchfynder_finder I need to see that movie...

@arturovm the tiny viking is locked in a fierce and painful battle with tiny viking teeth, trying to escape the confines of tiny vikings gums.