yatta VS Scoop

I used Rust to prototype a new window manager in public and I found it very productive, easy to iterate on and make large changes without worrying about breaking anything.

Thanks! I had a look through the latest commit that you pushed to grist, and I noticed you handling errors from windows-rs in a similar way as I was doing in a previous project (yatta.

In general, I feel a lot better about this code base, the choice of data structures, and particularly the added safety around how I am calling unsafe Windows APIs in cleaner ways that allow me to propagate and handle errors when responding to WinEvents or socket commands (compare this mishmash to this much cleaner module!)

I wrote my very first window manager for Windows 10 in Rust earlier this here, I built it from the ground up using the new windows-rs crate. It was my first time developing anything for Windows and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the MS documentation ecosystem, and I also had a lot of great example code to learn from thanks to other projects like nog.

I am using this crate for a relatively non-trivial project (tiling window manager) and it has been pretty painless to use so far. From time to time, there will be an API or a type that is marked as not yet implemented, or an instance where the metadata it is generated from is incorrect, but the maintainer is helpful and responsive in my experience.

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta/commit/87bc73eaa4f6ba7d00dbab2a6fb100f060b88ed8 Creating window floating rules based on partial title matching is added with this commit

I started working on yatta for Windows 10 because I was missing yabai and bspwm after I started working from a Windows 10 desktop last year.

I made a post about it on the Rust subreddit yesterday looking for more contributors: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lh4uyq/yatta_bsp_tili...

It's still early days, but it has automatic tiling, gap control, focus switching, directional moving and tree orientation toggling and you can use AHK or any other hotkey daemon to manage your keybindings.

You still have to build it from source at the moment, but I'm hoping to have it installable via the Scoop package manager in a month or two.

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta

I spent a couple of days hacking away to get something that works on Windows 10 with the bare minimum TWM functionality that my hands are used to, and I've managed to throw together Yatta: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta (there is a demo gif on the readme).

Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows, aimed at making it easier for users to manage software installations and maintain a clean system. It's designed with developers and power users in mind but can be beneficial for any Windows user looking for an efficient way to manage software. Basically it makes our life easier when it comes to software installation of any sort. Scoop support installation for large number of software. Check it out here Scoop.

Use a package manager! Assuming Windows (since it's the odd one out), get yourself some scoop then just scoop install openjdk. No need to navigate to a website, download bundleware, click next-next-next and accidentally install a virus like some caveman from 1997. This has been a solved problem since ancient times!

Should be easy enough, I installed neovim on my windows machine with scoop (you can even get nightly if you want), it's basically a one line install. You can also do a manual install if you want, but you don't have to. It took a little fiddling for me because I wanted to install scoop as well as all applications onto my D drive rather than my C drive, but nothing too crazy. I never got NvChad on my windows machine, but I do have it on linux, and siduck (the creator of nvchad) has given good instructions for installing even on windows, so i don't think it should be a problem. Also, there's a discord for nvchad, and siduck is pretty active on there if you want to ask questions. Good luck!

I update it with Brew on macOS and Scoop [1] on Windows (but I guess it is included in other package managers such as chocolatey).

Of course, a built-in auto-updater would be good, but a packaged version is a nice workaround for me.

[1]: https://scoop.sh/

So I tried installing scoop the "normal" way for both users then ran scoop install {app} --global as per https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/wiki/Global-Installs and got:Cannot find path 'C:\ProgramData\scoop\buckets' because it does not exist

There are a number of ways that you can install the Snyk CLI on your machine, ranging from using the available stand-alone executables to using package managers such as Homebrew for macOS and Scoop for Windows.

Scoop provides a wonderful foundation for creating a portable developer's toolkit on Windows systems.