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Very nice-looking app. Question: Why is Rust important in this, important enough to be in the name of the app (presumably the "R"), not just the HN submission

by SamBam 5y ago

Very nice-looking app. Question: Why is Rust important in this, important enough to be in the name of the app (presumably the "R"), not just the HN submission title (which has its own reasons for including "Rust")? That seems very insider-baseball for the average user.

littlestymaar 5y ago
For the average user indeed, but for the average rust developer hanging around on HN, having examples of how a full-featured GUI app that use GTK4 is something really valuable! I have no interest in note-taking apps and I'm never gonna use this one, but I'm eager to read the code.
- nu11ptr 5y ago
  Agreed - I have a personal project that needs a GUI. Still debating which to use but right now GTK4 is likely my top pick due it's binding maturity. Having a codebase to look at, esp. one that has obviously taken great care in it's design, is extremely valuable.
- simion314 5y ago
  >I have no interest in note-taking apps and I'm never gonna use this one, but I'm eager to read the code. Probably you should subscribe to some Rust specific reddits or forums ? Otherwise it means we should see on first page 10 different TODO apps in 5 different languages with 10 different toolkits. There should be something relatively interesting about the app IMO.
  - littlestymaar 5y ago
    Most people in the comment section seems to find something interesting about the app, and a few of us found something interesting about the fact that it's made with Rust. > Probably you should subscribe to some Rust specific reddits or forums I'm following /r/rust, but nobody submitted this app on it [1] so I was happy to find it here. Maybe you should tell the OP to go subscribe on reddit and post there instead of HN, why are those people using your forum for things you don't like… [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search/?q=Rnote&restrict_sr=1&sr_nsfw= https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search/?q=Rnote&restrict_sr=1&...
    - simion314 5y ago
      > Maybe you should tell the OP to go subscribe on reddit and post there instead of HN, why are those people using your forum for things you don't like… The issue is with Rust related spam, similar crap will not get blindly up-voted if Rust won't be in the title. Anyway we have to upvote or flag the articles as per the rules, but seemed weird that you would find cool Rust stuff here and you would miss it, then you either are not subscribed on the good Rust community or the Rust subreddits forums are so hyper filled with garbage that you miss interesting stuff.
petee 5y ago
I appreciate the mention if only because a bunch of projects look cool by description, but when you dig in you find out they have some silly stack of tech required. At least I know its rust, and won't be surprised by needing to compile it
Jim_Heckler 5y ago
To be fair, the closest "competitor" is Xournal++, named such in part because its a c++ remake of Xournal, so there's sort of a precedent I guess.
- kzrdude 5y ago
  With both X and ++ for the technology it's using, so a double example of this?

by SamBam 5y ago

littlestymaar 5y ago

For the average user indeed, but for the average rust developer hanging around on HN, having examples of how a full-featured GUI app that use GTK4 is something really valuable! I have no interest in note-taking apps and I'm never gonna use this one, but I'm eager to read the code.

nu11ptr 5y ago
Agreed - I have a personal project that needs a GUI. Still debating which to use but right now GTK4 is likely my top pick due it's binding maturity. Having a codebase to look at, esp. one that has obviously taken great care in it's design, is extremely valuable.
simion314 5y ago
>I have no interest in note-taking apps and I'm never gonna use this one, but I'm eager to read the code. Probably you should subscribe to some Rust specific reddits or forums ? Otherwise it means we should see on first page 10 different TODO apps in 5 different languages with 10 different toolkits. There should be something relatively interesting about the app IMO.
- littlestymaar 5y ago
  Most people in the comment section seems to find something interesting about the app, and a few of us found something interesting about the fact that it's made with Rust. > Probably you should subscribe to some Rust specific reddits or forums I'm following /r/rust, but nobody submitted this app on it [1] so I was happy to find it here. Maybe you should tell the OP to go subscribe on reddit and post there instead of HN, why are those people using your forum for things you don't like… [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search/?q=Rnote&restrict_sr=1&sr_nsfw= https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search/?q=Rnote&restrict_sr=1&...
  - simion314 5y ago
    > Maybe you should tell the OP to go subscribe on reddit and post there instead of HN, why are those people using your forum for things you don't like… The issue is with Rust related spam, similar crap will not get blindly up-voted if Rust won't be in the title. Anyway we have to upvote or flag the articles as per the rules, but seemed weird that you would find cool Rust stuff here and you would miss it, then you either are not subscribed on the good Rust community or the Rust subreddits forums are so hyper filled with garbage that you miss interesting stuff.

petee 5y ago

I appreciate the mention if only because a bunch of projects look cool by description, but when you dig in you find out they have some silly stack of tech required. At least I know its rust, and won't be surprised by needing to compile it

Jim_Heckler 5y ago

To be fair, the closest "competitor" is Xournal++, named such in part because its a c++ remake of Xournal, so there's sort of a precedent I guess.

kzrdude 5y ago
With both X and ++ for the technology it's using, so a double example of this?