Top 15 Rust Archlinux Projects
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Project mention: [Linux] - Just how many C (or worse) programs can you replace with Rust programs (practically) on a Linux box in 2022? | reddit.com/r/rust | 2022-06-24
AUR helper (Arch Linux): paru
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arch-audit
A utility like pkg-audit for Arch Linux. Based on Arch Security Team data. (by ilpianista)
Project mention: How to get notified about vulnerabilities in the arch repositories asap? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-11-09 -
Scout APM
Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.
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> While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java.
My experience with these new languages is such that this feels a bit unfair. It's like insisting that a disaster with 1000 fatalities is "much worse" than one with "only". It's ... true ... I guess, but there's something uncomfortable about making the comparison. Something has gone badly wrong if the comparison even needs to happen in the first place.
What I'm getting at is that e.g. Rust has an enormous problem in this area. It's not uncommon for me to see Node projects with over a thousand transitive dependencies, but on the other hand, I very frequently see Rust projects with over a hundred. And the Node projects tend to be more complicated than the Rust ones; they do more.
Take the last Rust program I tried to use, tealdeer. [1] If you don't know, tldr is a project that provides alternative simplified man pages for commonly used programs that consist entirely of easy to understand examples for the program. [2] What a tldr client needs to do is simply to check a local cache for each lookup, and if necessary update the cache online. It's a trivial problem that can be, and has been! [3], solved in a few hundred lines of shell (if you're being extremely verbose). How many recursive dependencies would you guess tealdeer uses? Depends on how you count, of course, but as of today the answer is ~133 deduplicated dependencies! For a program that's a glorified wrapper around curl!
Or another Rust program I looked at recently, rua [4]. In Arch Linux, the AUR is a repository of user maintained scripts for building and installing software as native Arch packages. Official tools for the building and installing software already exist for Arch, but it is common for users to use a wrapper around these tools that makes fetching and updating the software from the AUR easier. It's a relatively simple task that (once again) can be done with shell scripts. rua is such a wrapper. As of today it uses 137 deduplicated dependencies!
These Rust programs are simple terminal tools to do tasks that are almost trivial in nature. And yet they require hundreds of constantly updating dependencies! The situation may well be better than what you'll find for Node, but it's undeniably disastrous compared to either simpler languages without a built in package manager (like C) or more complicated batteries-included languages where best practices continue to prevail (like Python).
[1] https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer
[2] https://tldr.sh/
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rate-arch-mirrors
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool (Arch Linux; Manjaro; custom ones)
Project mention: Mirror issues with reflector or Arch as a whole? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2022-06-21Could you guys please check whether https://github.com/westandskif/rate-mirrors works for you? (without any country options)
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Project mention: How would i make my own local arch caching repo | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2022-05-05
https://github.com/nroi/flexo works really well on my network.
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Project mention: Pacman-bintrans – Experimental binary transparency for pacman via sigstore/rekor | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-05-23
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I don't really have any resources on hand. I've been maintaining https://github.com/archlinux/alpm.rs for the past ~3 years so it's just experience hacking on that and writing C.
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SonarQube
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Project mention: whats a good tiling window manager for beginners to them on a base arch install | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-10-07
Gobble: faster than i3-swallow (wm agnostic and new): https://github.com/EmperorPenguin18/gobble
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milcheck
Display the status of your pacman mirrorlist and the Arch Linux lastest news right in your terminal
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Github: https://github.com/threadexio/zeus
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I've written reboot-arch-btw (https://github.com/rnestler/reboot-arch-btw) in Rust on Arch for Arch BTW.
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I've seen these done a couple of times however my aim of simple_status (https://github.com/KJ002/simple_status) was to provide an easily configurable and efficient modular bar. I chose Rust because it is safe, efficient and has pretty good C interoperability so that I can interface with the X11 C API and set the status directly through this rather than piping the output into `xsetroot` which is much more efficient. The configuration is also quite diverse allowing you to have a custom delay per module and even choose not for a module to update at all. This is the initial release of Version 0.1.5 however it is stable, all that needs to be expanded upon is the configuration.
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Rust Archlinux related posts
- Mirror issues with reflector or Arch as a whole?
- O melhor gerenciador de pacotes para Arch Linux
- Pacman-bintrans – Experimental binary transparency for pacman via sigstore/rekor
- I just found a new distro not sure if anyone here knows about it yet, its called arch linux
- What is the first thing you do after installing Linux?
- If you make a custom Linux distro, is there a way to turn it into an iso file and share it with people? Also, would there be a way to send updates to it without having to overwrite everything on your computer?
- Como solucionar el problema de que rust-analyzer no esta instalado en Neovim Arch linux
Index
What are some of the best open-source Archlinux projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | paru | 3,241 |
| 2 | arch-audit | 316 |
| 3 | rua | 294 |
| 4 | rate-arch-mirrors | 156 |
| 5 | flexo | 79 |
| 6 | pacman-bintrans | 74 |
| 7 | alpm.rs | 66 |
| 8 | arch-audit-gtk | 44 |
| 9 | gobble | 24 |
| 10 | milcheck | 16 |
| 11 | zeus | 14 |
| 12 | ArchPapers | 14 |
| 13 | reboot-arch-btw | 10 |
| 14 | simple_status | 4 |
| 15 | toru | 4 |
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