alt Hacker NewsAs a counterpoint to a lot of the comments on this now portraying this as dated and questioning the stack behind - this is has the guts of great enterprise level software. Once you’ve serious data being thrown at something built on JS and run into OOMs, that’s when good old C(rust in the future maybe) stack shows these up.
Love to see such a strong tasteful take on software heralding back to the age of solid desktop apps.
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Rust in the future? Excuse the flippancy but what is missing nowadays?
Couple of notes. If a system is outputting text for humans to read, it’s not “serious data”. It’s megabytes. You can go out today and buy an off-the-shelf Apple desktop with half a terabyte of ram. My five year old laptop has 64Gb. Secondly, the sweet spot is Rust backend with typescript front end. The serious part isn’t the size of the data, it’s juggling the processes on one end, and pretty presentation to the human on the other. I’m using Tauri. As we get crates to do markdown with automatic language formatting, tables, etc I’d expect the whole thing to be written Rust
Why rust in the future? Why not start with rust?
But I will agree besides intentionally choosing C++ for a project presumably written by an agent, this project does look nice and thought out