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380 points culinary-robot | 1 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust.

Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera.

My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

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mattfrommars ◴[15 Oct 25 13:48 UTC] No.45592515[source]▶
I've started to notice there are a lot more rust based desktop application appearing vs say Go based or Java. Most of these apps are cross platforms. My guess is they are trying to compete with Electron. There is Tauri runs on Rust.

Can someone please tell me what special about Rust? Say, why aren't desktop application popular based on say Python?

On tangent, ive seen a lot of terminal base application in typescript and go

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thyristan ◴[15 Oct 25 15:12 UTC] No.45593837[source]▶
There are no languages with good GUI frameworks except C, C++ and C#. All other bindings typically suck ass.
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MangoToupe ◴[15 Oct 25 15:31 UTC] No.45594134[source]▶
And presumably C# is just binding to some native toolkit
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1. nobleach ◴[15 Oct 25 18:01 UTC] No.45596299[source]▶
If I had to simply bind to a native toolkit, I think Lazrus can do that. Having loved Delphi back in the day, I think I'd prefer to write ObjectPascal for anything more than a very simple utility. C# would likely be my second choice.