zionsati
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I built a WPF/SwiftUI grade Web UI in Rust: https://github.com/zion-sati/fui-rs
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Comment · 22 days ago
btw how did you get 4.2k stars for your repo? I genuinely would like to learn.
Comment · 22 days ago
omg thank you! Mac is turning into Windows where every post install needs a debloater!
Comment · 1 month ago
Good idea! Any suggestions?
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you :)
Microsoft's support for WASI has been pretty slow. Wasm isn't just for the browser - it came from there but with WASI, Wasm has the opportunity to run just about anywhere, even more portable than .NET Core.
MSFT's interest in making a wasm profile has been somewhat lacking and I understand the reason - the size I managed to achieve would've been impossible if I went with the full BCL / CoreLib. In particular, I had to cut reflection and typenames, keeping only thin RTTI.
So yes to staying as close to the latest C# language features but also deliberately not supporting features that bloat the resulting wasm if there's better and more modern alternatives such as source generation in place of reflection.
Comment · 1 month ago
Read the readme but still unclear - does this mean we can run DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on GPUs with 8GB VRAM?
Comment · 1 month ago
Very nice! Is there a lower quant like Q4? There's research showing lower quants suffer from low confidence in its own reasoning and tend to overthink because of that. I wonder if this helps?
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah all good. They're all good questions.
My point around ts is people want strongly typed languages these days.
The bigger problem with HTML/CSS is, when you're trying to do more sophisticated things (see the immediate drawing page on the demo), you'll find you need to use a canvas/HTML5. That then becomes a mini UI framework of its own...
For simple webpages, HTML/CSS is probably still the best way to go. But I wouldn't say the same for webapps?
Comment · 2 months ago
For a lot of front end devs, CSS/JS are frowned upon. We use it because we have to. In fact, we typically avoid JS by having TypeScript transpiled to JS. Not to mention CSS is still very inconsistent across the various browsers.
Porting HTML/CSS/JS to native apps is another big problem, which is why we ended up with Electron/WebView. The amount of RAM it gobbles up just to run simple apps is pretty horrible.
Why Rust? It's a strongly typed application language across browser and native. It also has a massive ecosystem and this allows us access to all of it.
BTW canvas is only the renderer. There's a lot of engineering that went into making the canvas not a typical "canvas UI app". We have solved accessibility, touch gestures, direct/immediate draw etc.
There's more reasons behind this if you're keen, I've written up a more comprehensive doc https://dev.to/zionsati/html-javascript-css-should-have-died...
Comment · 3 months ago
How does it handle dynamic complex sites E.g. webapps.
Comment · 3 months ago
To be honest, I'd be happy to get 3k users for anything I've created!
Marketing is always the hardest part. I came across this medium article https://zach-saw.medium.com/the-internet-is-dead-96a3f3ed866... while researching why it is so hard. It talks about the difficulty of getting some eyes on your app / project. In particular, it said Linus needed to be a content creator first before creating Linux in this day and age which hit me pretty hard.
Comment · 4 months ago
How about WPF/SwiftUI grade UI framework for the web?