krust VS winsafe

I’m not a bioinformatician, I’m just a software engineer. I made krust because I wanted to learn Rust. I’ve kept working on it and I’m surprised it has as many as 22 stars on GitHub, from people who seem to be in bioinformatics for the most part. So it seems like it’s somewhat interesting/useful. But I don’t know what would make this more/less useful for a specialist.

Been learning Rust by making a k-mer counter — bioinformatics 101 tool for counting the frequency of substrings of length k in DNA data: https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust. Would love feedback.

Adding all suggestions as issues on github ;) https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust/issues/6

Thanks again for your suggestion. In case you’re interested, I followed up and used rayon in my program: https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust/blob/main/src/lib.rs. All the best!

I know all that shit because I'm the author of Rust's WinSafe library, which is a safer Rust layer over native Win32, so I had to deal with a lot of shit like this.

[dependencies] winsafe = { git = "https://github.com/rodrigocfd/winsafe", features = ["kernel"] }

Externally, you can write a lot of native Windows stuff in Rust already. Personally, I'm having a lot of fun with WinSafe.

If you had such problems (which I also had in the past), I'm really interested in you opinion about WinSafe, and if it could help you solving them.

If you're after a native Windows application, WinSafe may suit your needs.

As the author of WinSafe, I can say it's tedious sometimes, but it's often very challenging, because you have to translate crazy unsafe behaviors into Rust's ownership model. It's surely hard, but also very rewarding at the end.

As the author of the WinSafe lib, I wholeheartedly agree.

I don't know how rare this is (or how rare it should be), but this issue warned me about this potential problem, and I had to make a huge refactoring to treat the possibility. I had to rethink many aspects of all handle implementations. It was hard work, but in the end it was worth it.

WinSafe says hello.

WinSafe, for example (which attemps to be a safe layer over the Windows API), provides lots of RAII automations. A fine example is the BeginPaint function: