bash-preexec VS Azul

Compare bash-preexec vs Azul and see what are their differences.

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bash-preexec Azul
8 26
827 5,814
- 0.3%
5.0 7.1
2 months ago 2 months ago
Shell Rust
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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bash-preexec

Posts with mentions or reviews of bash-preexec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023
    Or use the excellent bash-preexec plugin that atuin itself relies on to achieve this in a cleaner way: https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
  • How to log bash commands in some simple way?
    3 projects | /r/bash | 27 Nov 2022
    Use this: https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/
  • Is it possible to handle a command before it's passed to the bash command parser?
    1 project | /r/bash | 16 Oct 2022
  • Opppppsss you did it again
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2022
    Funny you say that when the sketchiest part of this submission is the shell script it uses to intercept every command you run: https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/blob/master/bash-pr...

    I don’t know rust, but the rust files in this repo look very straightforward. (Why wouldn’t it? It’s just matching a few hardcoded commands. It’d be easy in any language)

  • Terminal starting on previous PWD position?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 23 May 2022
    # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples # We use preexec and precmd hook functions for Bash # If you have anything that's using the Debug Trap or PROMPT_COMMAND # change it to use preexec or precmd # See also https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec # If not running interactively, don't do anything case $- in *i*) ;; *) return;; esac # don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history. # See bash(1) for more options HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # append to the history file, don't overwrite it shopt -s histappend # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1) HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=2000 # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. shopt -s checkwinsize # If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will # match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories. #shopt -s globstar # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1) [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)" # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below) if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) case "$TERM" in xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;; esac # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt #force_color_prompt=yes if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48 # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.) color_prompt=yes else color_prompt= fi fi if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls --color=auto' #alias dir='dir --color=auto' #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' fi # colored GCC warnings and errors #export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01' # some more ls aliases alias ll='ls -alF' alias la='ls -A' alias l='ls -CF' # Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so: # sleep 10; alert alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"' # Alias definitions. # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly. # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package. if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if ! shopt -oq posix; then if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi fi # If this is an xterm set more declarative titles # "dir: last_cmd" and "actual_cmd" during execution # If you want to exclude a cmd from being printed see line 156 case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\$(print_title)\a\]$PS1" __el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND="" print_title () { __el_FIRSTPART="" __el_SECONDPART="" if [ "$PWD" == "$HOME" ]; then __el_FIRSTPART=$(gettext --domain="pantheon-files" "Home") else if [ "$PWD" == "/" ]; then __el_FIRSTPART="/" else __el_FIRSTPART="${PWD##*/}" fi fi if [[ "$__el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND" == "" ]]; then echo "$__el_FIRSTPART" return fi #trim the command to the first segment and strip sudo if [[ "$__el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND" == sudo* ]]; then __el_SECONDPART="${__el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND:5}" __el_SECONDPART="${__el_SECONDPART%% *}" else __el_SECONDPART="${__el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND%% *}" fi printf "%s: %s" "$__el_FIRSTPART" "$__el_SECONDPART" } put_title() { __el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND="${BASH_COMMAND}" printf "\033]0;%s\007" "$1" } # Show the currently running command in the terminal title: # http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/xterm-titles-with-bash.html update_tab_command() { # catch blacklisted commands and nested escapes case "$BASH_COMMAND" in *\033]0*|update_*|echo*|printf*|clear*|cd*) __el_LAST_EXECUTED_COMMAND="" ;; *) put_title "${BASH_COMMAND}" ;; esac } preexec_functions+=(update_tab_command) ;; *) ;; esac
  • How Warp Works
    10 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2022
    Thankfully, most shells provide hooks for before the prompt is rendered (zsh calls this precmd) and before a command is executed (preexec). Zsh and Fish have built in support for these hooks. Though bash does not have built in support for these hooks, scripts like bash-preexec exist to mimic the behavior of other shells. Using these hooks, we send a custom DCS (Device Control String) from the running session to Warp. This DCS contains an encoded JSON string that includes metadata about the session that we want to render. Within Warp we can parse the DCS, deserialize the JSON, and create a new block within our data model.
  • What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2021
    It's attached to the preexec hook of https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec, so is run before every command. This means that everything goes into one easily-greppable file, but is still separable by PID/host machine - since my work has me walking around a large facility, often I'll remember where I was when I did something but not exactly when, so can narrow down by machine.
  • post command hooks
    1 project | /r/commandline | 20 Jan 2021
    This github repo claims to do the same for bash.

Azul

Posts with mentions or reviews of Azul. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-03.
  • AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024
    Not sure what you mean but WebRender powers Firefox which definitely works on the desktop.

    You can use it to build desktop UI frameworks - see for example https://azul.rs/

  • Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023
    I'd been wanting to see this, preferably with JS being optional, and just allowing direct DOM access.

    I initially thought this was what Azul was, but it's only just using Servo's WebRender compositor, and rolls its own CSS parser, DOM, and layout engine, so it doesn't benefit from most of the work done on Servo, and supports less CSS features.

    https://github.com/fschutt/azul

  • Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2023
    Both Servo and Fifefox make use of webrender, which is an awesome piece of tech and is well suited to render a web page. Some GUI projects attempted to use webrender directly as well, like Azul and moxie-native
  • Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2023
    > But no one is saying, "Hey I have a CSS 2.1 compliant rasterizer and compositor that you can use in your C++ or Rust environment!" are they?

    There’s actually quite a lot of interesting work going on in that general space, has been in various forms for some years. A couple that immediately spring to mind:

    • Azul <https://azul.rs/> builds on WebRender, as used in Firefox. I haven’t looked at it for a few years, but it looks to have grown quite interesting now.

    • Blitz <https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz> is based on from-scratch implementations of CSS layout and rendering, and wgpu rendering. It’s not usable yet, but is a very interesting concept. If one happens to be familiar with React Native: it’s kinda like that, or React Native Web.

  • XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2023
    Azul[1] was my solution for that, it was based on WebRender. I didn't get around to finish it in 2019, but I will work on it this year, maybe I'll get it to be mature enough to post it here.

    > wide portability (at least Windoze, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, embedded: Azul is Windows-Linux-Mac only, don't underestimate the effort to properly port something to a new platform

    > "though a Vulkan-based renderer can be made to run pretty much anywhere": WebRender is OpenGL + using software rendering as a fallback

    > a permissive open source license: MPL-2.0

    > a C interface/wrap to allow a wide programming language binding support: yes

    > and an easily extensible and themable set of basic widgets: also yes

    [1] https://azul.rs/

  • Rust GUI framework
    16 projects | /r/rust | 8 Feb 2023
    There is Iced which is used by system76 in Pop!_OS, Druid [DISCONTINUED], GTK-rs, Relm, Azul and Tauri. Personally I would use Tauri for its speed using the OS's native web render, documentation of use with things such as Sveltekit and the ability to make UI's using JS, CSS and HTML. Tauri similarly to Electron whilst being far faster. But its up to personal preference really. There aren't any solid "go to" options at the moment.
  • Servo 2023 Roadmap
    1 project | /r/rust | 4 Feb 2023
    Sounds like you may be interested in azul not exactly servo based but on projects that originate from servo. Also this is not a typical WebView, for example it does not use HTML but uses DOM to define it's UI, and there is no JS engine in there.
  • Help with webrender.
    1 project | /r/rust | 1 Jan 2023
    Azul uses webrender. But your "glue" program is like half the web browser. You also need a vector graphics library to render websites. Webrender only does boxes, but not complex SVG paths. Once the plan was to use pathfinder, but mozilla fired the dev and they still using an old version of chromium's skia for that.
  • Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022
    One day I'll get around to finish my library Azul [1]. Hopefully.

    [1] https://azul.rs/

  • Pure Rust GUI Landscape
    8 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2022
    azul

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bash-preexec and Azul you can also consider the following projects:

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.

trash-d - A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin. Written in D

wxRust - A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit.

shellfirm - Intercept any risky patterns (default or defined by you) and prompt you a small challenge for double verification

gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!

tlog - Terminal I/O logger

orbtk - The Rust UI-Toolkit.

LLMShellAutoComplete - Use GPT to complete shell command line using atuin shell history database and terminal screen content as prompt

Native Windows GUI - A light windows GUI toolkit for rust

snoopy - Snoopy Command Logger is a small library that logs all program executions on your Linux/BSD system.

relm - Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust