nix VS browsix

Compare nix vs browsix and see what are their differences.

nix

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs (by nix-rust)

browsix

Browsix is a Unix-like operating system for the browser. (by plasma-umass)
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nix browsix
12 2
2,495 3,119
2.2% 0.5%
9.3 0.0
2 days ago about 2 years ago
Rust JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.
  • I was wrong about rust
    4 projects | /r/rust | 20 May 2023
    If we drop std Rust ceases to be economical due to the time it would take to reimplement the data structures and IO interfaces it provides, not to mention the event loop crate we use (calloop). At that point we'd be relying on so much FFI via eg. nix that the relative safety would be diminished too. After reimplementing all that it's not clear to me that we'd even save that much size, but I suppose it's possible.
  • The guide to signal handling in Rust
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2023
    Now that we have covered the fundamentals of signals, let's delve into the world of handling signals in Rust! Unlike C, where signal handling is built into the language modules, Rust provides several libraries that enable developers to handle signals with ease. Libraries such as signal_hook, nix, libc, and tokio handle signals that primarily use C bindings to make it possible to work with signals.
  • [Quick Poll] Are You Using Nix for Your Rust Open-Source Projects?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 27 Mar 2023
    Obviously you meant the nix crate
  • Looking for feedback: cargo-changelog
    3 projects | /r/rust | 1 Sep 2022
    You can take a look here for example: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
  • Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2021
    I actually have experience with this specific code. I recently fixed a bug in a function that his PR also touches: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1521

    And I have a PR to fix problems in another Rust wrapper of the same libc functions: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2653

    It's hard to get right. Skimming the PR, the feedback looks reasonable.

    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2021
    This post fails to speak to me on two fronts:

    * The `nix` crate is a cornerstone of the Rust development ecosystem: if you do anything that requires POSIX or various nix-specific APIs beyond those wrapped by the standard library, then `nix` most likely provides a high-level and safe* wrapper for them. Perfectionism is a virtue in this context, one that keeps large parts of the Rust ecosystem from accidentally consuming buggy code. The author unfortunately chose a particularly messy and bug-prone corner of the POSIX APIs to wrap, and ran into a correspondingly intensive review process. I've merged simpler wrappers[1][2] with no fuss.

    * Alacritty seems to work just fine. I switched to it about two months ago, after using nothing but (heavily customized) rxvt-unicode for a decade. Maybe it's because I don't use ligatures or images in my terminals (I thought we were talking about non-"toy" functionality!), but I haven't found myself wanting for anything beyond what Alacritty already does. And the scrollback seems to work nicely. To summarize: where's the tragedy?

    [1]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1342

    [2]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1331

  • What would you change about bitflags?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Oct 2021
    One thing I'd like to see is a MSRV policy, as its causing problems for downstreams (https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/issues/1555)
  • Choosing between Rust and C++ for a new project
    4 projects | /r/rust | 1 Apr 2021
    The nix crate has you covered. Check out some usages.
    4 projects | /r/rust | 1 Apr 2021

browsix

Posts with mentions or reviews of browsix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.
  • Anyone wanna work together on a research DAO?
    3 projects | /r/dao | 24 May 2022
    I'm interested in using a WebOS like this: github| live embedded into Unix platform like this browsix with support for frontend website like this from webflow template (webflow code export) as switches to toggle between frontend and backend codes of projects. I know it may sound a bit weird, but please DM, and we can discuss more.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix and browsix you can also consider the following projects:

rust-fuse - Rust library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)

tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++

dysk - A linux utility to get information on filesystems, like df but better

Etherpad - Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.

rust - Rust language bindings for TensorFlow

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

torus - Torus is an event-driven model-view UI framework for the web, focused on being tiny, efficient, and free of dependencies.

kitty-icon - An alternative app icon for the Kitty terminal emulator

shader-web-background - Displays GLSL fragment shaders as a website background. Supports offscreen buffers and floating point textures on almost any browser and hardware. Compatible with Shadertoy.