neon VS surrealdb

Great interview!

Love how much thought is being put into what you “gold-plate”. I’ve always felt that my best work comes around on round two (or three or four…).

Curious what you are planning for the ability to script the configuration? I haven’t played with zed much yet; is it possible today? Would something like Neon [1] help bridge the gap from VSCode and old Atom users?

[1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

Neon

Is there a third option? Surely node has a way to directly call native code, similar to Python's C extensions? Some Node equivalent of PyO3? For example, I found neon which promises "safe and fast native Node.js modules".

Have a look at https://crates.io/crates/napi and https://crates.io/crates/neon which allow you to call rust from node. We went with napi but they're both pretty good.

Just to add: N-API is incredibly underrated. Then again, maybe the lack of a strong native modules ecosystem is an indicator that the pure JS ecosystem is just so good. But man, got something computationally intensive? Just offload it to Rust with Neon or something. Got some proprietary bit of code in your product? Build a native module.

> rust is not well-suited for interfacing with FFI

How so? Packages like neon [1] and rustler [2] suggest otherwise. I'm using both of those in a real product (I'm using neon directly, to write native modules for an Electron app; on the back-end, I depend on an Elixir package that uses rustler).

[1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

[2]: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

You can use https://github.com/infinyon/node-bindgen, https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon, or https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs for Node.js libraries, https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3 for Python libraries, https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/ for WebAssembly, and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen for C libraries!

They can use Rust to speed up Nodejs through https://crates.io/crates/neon for example

I’m not prompted again while actively using my laptop. When it’s time to switch to an open source project, I’m seamlessly prompted for my GitHub key.

you should add https://surrealdb.com -- basically an open source firebase. and they will launch a paid cloud offering soon.

In this article, I have shared how I have built a simple task-tracking full-stack application using NextJS and SurrealDB.

In this article, I'll show you how you can create a binary package for your desired program. I wanted to download the SurrealDB package, but the package on nix was a source package, meaning that I had to spend over 50 minutes waiting for a stupid package to compile.

Get Cloud Version going!

SurrealDB comes with a LIVE SELECT statement that allows you to listen for creations, updates and deletions to specific records you are interested in or entire tables. While you could already take advantage of this powerful feature with our JavaScript SDK or WebSockets, the Rust SDK added an API for it in v1.1.0. ​ The Rust API for live queries builds on top of the already existing select method by simply adding a live method which converts the select query into a live select one. It works seamlessly with our current API, so you can use it with single records, a range of records, or entire tables. Unlike the normal select method which returns either a single result or a vector of results, it returns a stream of notifications. This works for the WebSocket engine and the local ones (the key value stores you can embed in your app). The only engine not yet supported is the HTTP one. ​ In this article, we show some examples of running live queries via the Rust SDK. We will skip imports for brevity but your IDE and/or the Rust compiler should give you the correct suggestions. Please refer to this example in our repo for a full, working example. ​

1.0 version but https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/issues/1548 is still open :)

In the midst of a dynamic landscape of exciting new projects, one name shines bright — SurrealDB.