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What are the benefits of „Written in Rust“ here? As far as I understand this is basically a GUI for FFMPEG, which is written in C. Is it just marketing?
by matricaria 2y ago
What are the benefits of „Written in Rust“ here? As far as I understand this is basically a GUI for FFMPEG, which is written in C. Is it just marketing?
- Gormo 2y agoThere seems to be a trend of people building frontends to already existing tools, then advertising their software as though it was itself implementing the underlying functionality.
- Dalewyn 2y agoYou built this? ... I built this.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoConsidering the original tool was abandoned, I think its fair game. They also noted they made some improvements over the original tool. I assume the author wanted a simple tool like the original but found some bugs, dug into the code, realized he could re-write it in what he was comfortable in.
- Gormo 2y agoWhen was FFMpeg ever abandoned?
- giancarlostoro 2y agoWhat? I'm talking specifically about the GUI itself.
- Gormo 2y ago...which is a frontend to FFMpeg's functionality, not a screen recorder in its own right.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoRight, and GUIs dont have GUI specific bugs ever? Thats what you seem to be implying, or the underlying dependency becomes incompatible.
- J_Shelby_J 2y agoPeople always say this, and I get it - maybe it feels like an attempt to ride a hype train. But if you're interested in Rust ecosystem, you're probably interested in how someone wraps FFMPEG in rust, and so that tag might be valuable. Maybe we can tag projects based on languages, and help avoid this.
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- j33zusjuice 2y agoIsn’t that already a thing? Or do you mean that HN should add tags for posts about languages?
- daghamm 2y agoSomeone (may have been Julia Evans) discussed how easier it is to hit the front page if you add "in xxx" to your title. "xxx" being the current hyped technology. She mentioned Go and Rust as examples
- purple-leafy 2y agoIn Scratch
- kody 2y agoI opened to project to take a look at the source code, which I would not have done if the project were written in, say, C.
- agarren 2y agoSame - it seems like a decent, small, example of using gtk4 bindings in rust. These kinds of projects are great particularly for anyone comfortable in C and building up fluency in rust.
- hot_gril 2y agoAlso might be easier to build than a C project.
- nineteen999 2y agoYeah but the majority of the useful functionality of the program is written in C (gtk4, ffmpeg).
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- darby_eight 2y agoIt just seems descriptive, I don't think there's any implication of a particular benefit. More description = more reason to click on link.
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- amelius 2y agoThe benefits of "written in Rust" are that it never segfaults.
- voytec 2y ago"Written in Rust" grants +4 trustworthiness, +4 ability to write a blog post on memory safety and 2% resistance to ego loss at the cost of -5 alertness and -3 O.G. street cred points