fml9000 VS fish-shell

this has not gotten very far off the ground but making a foobar2000-like music player using gtk4-rs https://github.com/cmdcolin/fml9000

I am trying to make my own gui music player https://github.com/cmdcolin/fml9000/. I've used cmus (command line) and it didn't click. also used quod libet and foobar under wine. foobar is the best but i want to get a bit custom. I mostly listen to stuff on youtube so I want my gui music player to support connecting to youtube and maybe bandcamp (I have many bandcamp purchases also, so being able to access those without bulk download is ideal to me even though I've used bandcamp-collection-downloader, it just takes up space on my laptop)

i'm attempting to make a music player with rust and gtk (both new things to me) at https://github.com/cmdcolin/fml9000

my gtk4-rs app that i'm writing is pretty spaghetti-codey but feel like it could be cleaned up over time. relm4 is interesting and may help code organization, but i went with raw gtk4-rs to start with to avoid trying to learn too many things at once. my nooby code just for ref https://github.com/cmdcolin/fml9000

Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.

They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512