magic-wormhole.rs VS CalcuLaTeX

Rust: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs (official)

I saw some time back that a productionalized attempt came out: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs

The one I mentioned was much more primitive, meant as a demo (you can look at the branches for different approaches): https://github.com/estebank/rusticwormhole

> Downloading 3GB of dependencies is not a thing that happens in the Rust ecosystem. Reality is orders of magnitude smaller than that.

Assuming they're talking about the built size of dependencies that are left lying around after cargo builds a binary, they're really not exaggerating by much. I have no difficulty of believing that there are Rust projects that leave 3GB+ of dependency bloat on your file system after you build them.

To take the last Rust project I built, magic-wormhole.rs [1], the source code I downloaded from Github was 1.6 MB. After running `cargo build --release`, the build directory is now 618 MB and there's another 179 MB in ~/.cargo, for a total of 800 MB used.

All this to build a little command line program that sends and receives files over the network over a simple protocol (build size 14 MB). God forbid I build something actually complicated written in Rust, like a text editor.

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs

This is cool but it really should be using TCP. (You can do holepunching with TCP, check out https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs/blob/master/src/transit.rs)

I'm contributing for some magic-wormhole issues, the book of rust-clippy , and exercism rust track ... Thank Almighty Allah.

I'm working on some issues in magic-wormhole.rs and still looking around for other projects.

Check out the main repo here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX And the website repo here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX-Web

Hey HN, I created CalcuLaTeX because I was frustrated with my workflow for chemistry and physics homework. Generally, I'd use the Python REPL as a calculator and type each problem into LaTeX to turn it in. CalcuLaTeX merges these two steps and makes it easier to reason about calculations by real time visual feedback.

I've posted on r/rust as well (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lqn5aa/calculatex_a_p...), and there seems to be interest in using it for scientific papers and such.

The only alternative I know of is PTC MathCAD, which is quite powerful and definitely worth looking into. However, it's quite expensive and Windows only.

The main repo (a Rust library and basic CLI) can be found here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX

The website repo using WASM and very hacky JS can be found here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX-Web

It supports basic unit conversion via the Unit hints. E.g. you can write 1 hour = ? days. A long term goal is proper Unit coercion which is kind of hard to explain but I did my best in this issue https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX/issues/3.

I'm still working on https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX. I'm hoping for it to be ready for my chemistry quiz next week. I've created a very basic web interface via WASM here: https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web/.