fst VS tao

I'd point you towards BurntSushi's fst crate: https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst

The fst crate effectively relies on mmap for it to work right. The folks here suggesting you just use the heap might be right, but only if using the heap is actually plausible. If your dictionary is GBs big (an FST might be bigger than available memory), then copying it the heap first would be disastrous.

You'll love what we're working on if you're interested in the implementation of:- Tantivy- Meilisearch- Finite State Transducers

Here's an example of longest prefix matching using a FST which I based my approach on: https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst/pull/104/files

Finite State Transducers

As a result, I have a plan to implement a desktop version from then and I finished today with a beta version. The desktop is based on tauri, and the dictionary index algorithm is FST (it is an awesome index algorithm).

WordBueno’s data is currently derived from Wiktionary. The backend is using Rust’s warp with fst for indexing.

No you don't. I've written multiple programs that load things instantly off the file system via memory maps. See the fst crate[1], for example, which is designed to work with memory maps.

Rust "works badly with memory mapped files" doesn't mean, "Rust can't use memory mapped files." It means, "it is difficult to reconcile Rust's safety story with memory maps." ripgrep for example uses memory maps because they are faster sometimes, and its safety contract[2] is a bit strained. But it works.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst/

[2] - https://docs.rs/grep-searcher/0.1.7/grep_searcher/struct.Mma...

That sounds quite similar to Tauri’s Tao, so a brief comparison could come in handy.

Now the string Alt+Enter pressed! should be logged into the console every time I press Alt+Enter. But it doesn't work and I didn't know why ... until I found this open issue on the tao repository: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tao/issues/307

This crate is the backend for another project of mine, which is currently Windows only - it will be Linux compatible as well pending the closure of this issue on an upstream project. Should work on OSX as well in theory, but I have no way to test that at this time

Big fan of .mdx resources and GoldenDict. Unfortunately Wikit Desktop does not run on Wayland natively due to https://github.com/tauri-apps/tao/issues/248. Can Wikit disable global shortcuts to work it around?