milli VS cacao

Is this a posting list? There is a lot of bioinformatics in this post, but if I squint, some of the problems do look like general information retrieval problems. Even the discussion of ordering the arrays by mass sounds like search relevance scores and makes me wonder if it makes sense to try to get something off the shelf like meillisearch/milli or tantavy to support this use case.

I'm currently not using any tool, although I am playing around with binding Milli and the most up-to-date Mentat fork to emacs with emacs-module-rs.

Yeah, we have already done that, the internal engine is called milli and could even be published on crates.io one day! The issue is with the design of the storage system itself, we use LMDB right now but maybe we can find another way to index faster and to be more oriented to distributed systems.

They have another prototype engine with more advanced features and performance too.

https://github.com/meilisearch/milli

You can look at the milli repository this is the library that we use and work on. MeiliSearch is the HTTP actix-web based server that serves the milli indices.

This library is the main bottleneck of the new MeiliSearch search engine. We will soon release a beta version, keep watching!

Working on the new MeiliSearch engine, reworked from scratch! There already is excellent external contributions 🎉

This is really specific, but for this point in the article:

> There’s a long guide on Embedding a Command-Line Tool in a Sandboxed App, so I followed that, and then slowly, painfully, factored Xcode out of it, so that I wouldn’t have to figure out how to get a 10GB Xcode install onto the CI machine (remember, you need to be signed in to an Apple ID to download Xcode, and there’s no way to do it from the command-line).

You could actually solve this with Rust and no Xcode whatsoever. cacao [1] and cargo-bundle [2] will produce an app bundle you could sign/notarize/distribute without needing to ever open Xcode.

[1] https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao

I've had basic animation support in cacao for about a year now, but I don't think anybody even realizes it.

But I will reiterate what I say on many posts like these, which is that it would be even cooler if we could stop having a million projects reinvent this wheel - and I say this as someone who wrote a large Rust library that is backed by ObjC. madsmtm has an ongoing effort to put together a best in class ObjC Rust wrapper, which would be great to see even more support for.

MacOS; I have to call the AppKit API. I can use a library like this which offers Rust bindings for AppKit - otherwise I can write my own maybe?

Yes, you can: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao