serde-this-or-that VS tui-rs

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I was just working over the weekend on putting together a project, serde-this-or-that which is inspired by a blog post of a similar name, even though technically that blog post appears to discuss something slightly tangential to the matter. This project is inspired by a question posted on SO, which suggested a crate might be useful to deserialize cases where a json field has one of multiple possible multiple types (for example it could come as str or bool). I was also working on adding benchmarks, which this is actually the first crate where I have successfully put together benchmarks using criterion which I've been kind of nervous about using in general, but based on the docs it was pretty easy to set up so I'm kind of glad about that at least.

Update: for those curious, I've added benchmarks for comparison with serde_with here. After some more testing, I've release v0.4 and am confident that performance is now on par with serde_with. Also, I noticed that whenever serde_with::PickFirst is used, performance drops; in this case, serde_this_or_that does seem to perform 12x better in such scenarios.

The full release notes can be found on the project page on GitHub as well.

I've just published an initial release of serde-this-or-that, which builts on top of serde to provide custom deserialization for fields that can be specified as multiple types.

The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library.

[0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

[1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

Rust has great libraries for TUIs. tui-rs (https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) has been used in numerous popular applications, but is unmaintained. ratatui (https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) is the maintained version, and is pretty new. Less widely known is cursive (https://github.com/gyscos/cursive), which I have yet to try.

Aside from the libraries, I just wanted to start a project that would make be better at Rust. The easy distribution with cargo is a huge bonus though.

CLI, use Clap. If you want to get fancy, use Tui.

u/lordnacho666 It uses the fabulous https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs (now revived as https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) TUI lib.

This app is based on the these two crate in rust (tui-rs , tui-textarea). The text area provide the Emacs motions and I integrated the vim motions there, but the editor in this app as much simpler than the huge VIM and Emacs systems

If you interested in the TUI apps in rust you can start with the crate tui-rs or its revival ratatui. They have examples inside of them which you can start and see the source code to get the basic functionalities. For the text editor you can check examples in the crate tui-textarea.

For Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3].

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[2] https://github.com/textualize/textual

[3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

You can check tui-rs, is a library to build CLI interfaces and has some examples about using user input without blocking the UI