3 ms·

Author here. A few other Rust projects to note that I didn't mention in the original post I've since found: - Boa (JS engine in Rust) – https://github.com/boa-

by leerob 5y ago

Author here. A few other Rust projects to note that I didn't mention in the original post I've since found: - Boa (JS engine in Rust) – https://github.com/boa-dev/boa https://github.com/boa-dev/boa - RSLint (JS/TS linter in Rust) – https://github.com/rslint/rslint https://github.com/rslint/rslint - Node version manager in Rust – https://github.com/Schniz/fnm https://github.com/Schniz/fnm If you know of any other popular ones, let me know. I'm keeping a list :)

dceddia 5y ago
I've been using NAPI-RS to bridge from Electron <-> Rust and it's been nice - https://napi.rs/ https://napi.rs/ I believe SWC uses it behind the scenes. They just put out an alpha release that makes it way more ergonomic to write Rust functions that interop with JS, too. There's a small example of it in the README: https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs#taste https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs#taste NAPI isn't as well-known in the JS-to-Rust bindings world (Neon is the more well-known library, https://neon-bindings.com/ https://neon-bindings.com/) but it seems to be gaining steam.
- leerob 5y ago
  Ah yes, how could I forget! NAPI-RS is very, very slick.
cjpearson 5y ago
Volta is also written in Rust. I've only used it for managing Node and npm versions, but it can do more than that and describes itself as a "tool manager" rather than a node version manager. https://docs.volta.sh/guide/ https://docs.volta.sh/guide/
leerob 5y ago
Another one: Electron alternative Tauri written in Rust – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990
jbbe 5y ago
fnm was a game changer for me, it is significantly quicker than nvm. It was mentioned in the article but swc as an alternative typescript compiler has really sped up builds.
- leerob 5y ago
  Now, it just needs type checking to replace tsc :fingers-crossed:
timClicks 5y ago
I was interested to see that bun (https://bun.sh https://bun.sh) is being created in Zig. "bun is like postcss, babel, node & webpack in one 100x faster tool for building modern web frontends."

by leerob 5y ago

dceddia 5y ago

I've been using NAPI-RS to bridge from Electron <-> Rust and it's been nice - https://napi.rs/ https://napi.rs/ I believe SWC uses it behind the scenes. They just put out an alpha release that makes it way more ergonomic to write Rust functions that interop with JS, too. There's a small example of it in the README: https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs#taste https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs#taste NAPI isn't as well-known in the JS-to-Rust bindings world (Neon is the more well-known library, https://neon-bindings.com/ https://neon-bindings.com/) but it seems to be gaining steam.

leerob 5y ago
Ah yes, how could I forget! NAPI-RS is very, very slick.

cjpearson 5y ago

Volta is also written in Rust. I've only used it for managing Node and npm versions, but it can do more than that and describes itself as a "tool manager" rather than a node version manager. https://docs.volta.sh/guide/ https://docs.volta.sh/guide/

leerob 5y ago

Another one: Electron alternative Tauri written in Rust – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990

jbbe 5y ago

fnm was a game changer for me, it is significantly quicker than nvm. It was mentioned in the article but swc as an alternative typescript compiler has really sped up builds.

leerob 5y ago
Now, it just needs type checking to replace tsc :fingers-crossed:

timClicks 5y ago

I was interested to see that bun (https://bun.sh https://bun.sh) is being created in Zig. "bun is like postcss, babel, node & webpack in one 100x faster tool for building modern web frontends."