Can’t see the source nor proxy the traffic. It’s a black box. A shiny, smooth-scrolling black box.

Building on mac is the same as building on any other platform

The post you are replying to is a joke, it makes no statement as to my own person opinion on any of these topics. The point is that the world elite all care about these things, so these things are great "bait" to lure them into a ship where we can ship them off to space and be rid of them.

My personal opinion is that free markets and distributed solutions are the first tool to reach for when you have a problem. But they don't work for everything, and climate change is one of those problems that cannot be solved bottom up... which is really tragic because nothing seems to be solvable top down without yielding too much power and that power will be used for lots of other shit it shouldn't be used for. So yes climate change is real and a serious concern and has to be solved and it cannot be solved bottom up. And whatever top-down solutions come at us are virtually guaranteed to have massive negative side effects designed to enrich the elite, ... and many will cheat if they can, including nations, which means "we can't work together to save our lives". and well... life sucks but there it is. It might not even be worth trying given the game theory. I don't know. We seem to have solved the CFC ozone hole issue collectively so I think it's possible, so I'm still in favor of government action... I just fear the nutty people making the decisions.

I don't even like asking people to trust me. Which is why I suggest compiling it yourself, and I publish all the code.

Pushed a light restyling of the feed section for the Gossip "Default" theme, just to familiarize with egui; a strange way to do UI coming from the web, but it's fun :)

The original "Classic" theme is still available under the Settings.

Another way might be to prioritize posts from people in your “trust network”… people followed by the people you follow, or by the people they follow. A few degrees of trust and it’s a pretty big and high quality network.

I don't know, all I can tell you is what I have tried and how that went. #[0] is working out design ideas but I don't think he's interested in the coding part. Are you?

I tried Tauri and found the undebuggable magic that hooks Rust and JavaScript together to be a massive minus. I have performance problems and I could not figure out why. Using javascript rendering with VueJS or similar was nice (it is what I do for my day job), but it just didn't work. I hear "good things" from other places about Tauri, but it didn't work for me.

I tried gtk4 (since it's newer than gtk3 and new projects maybe should use the newer one), but the rust bindings are not documented and are not quite like the C++ bindings, so it was very painful trying to figure out how to do in rust what is well documented in C++. The people who wrote the rust bindings were no help at all. I found that slowed me down so much that I abandoned gtk4.

I did not try QT.

I did not try other rust-native UIs such as druid, iced, slint, or azul.

egui has two problems, but they aren't as bad as originally imagined.

First, it is not easy to do beautiful interfaces. You don't get beautiful fonts with color emojis or subpixel anti-aliasing or even hinting for that matter. The default widgets are ugly 1990s looking things, so you may have to build many of your own widgets. BUT given that it is OpenGL you can draw anything that OpenGL draws so strictly speaking there are no limits to what you can do. It's just that some things are very complicated and most people don't want to build the top-end of a GUI from scratch.

Second, it is immediate mode, which means it re-renders every frame. This turns out to be no big deal at all. I run it at 10 FPS and it looks fine. Many frames don't require a redraw as nothing has happened, so it might only draw 1 frame per second. And the rust code that specifies what to draw is much faster and simpler than the pixel shaders (for example) that determine what color each pixel needs to be, and we aren't doing anything like that in rust per frame. So I find my CPU appears pretty much idle, even though it is respecifying what to draw for up to 10 times per second. I find it "fun" to make sure the UI code doesn't block and doesn't do anything compute intensive, and optimizing it really is my cup of tea.

So in summary I'm not against sticking with egui, but to make it look beautiful and to fix the UX, it will probably require some uphill UI development which might have been easier in a different GUI.

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I chose it because it was fast and easy and I didn't want the UI programming to bog me down.