Recreating macOS’s Drift screensaver with Rust and Wasm

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  • glow

    GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code (by grovesNL)

    Most of it is written in Rust and compiles to Wasm with WebGL/OpenGL bindings via glow. The settings panel is written in Elm and the whole project is compiled with Nix. There’s also a very basic native desktop app. I haven’t seen many examples of a complete setup like this, so hopefully this can serve as a template for anyone trying out a similar stack.

  • nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

    Most of it is written in Rust and compiles to Wasm with WebGL/OpenGL bindings via glow. The settings panel is written in Elm and the whole project is compiled with Nix. There’s also a very basic native desktop app. I haven’t seen many examples of a complete setup like this, so hopefully this can serve as a template for anyone trying out a similar stack.

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  • flux

    An open-source tribute to the macOS Drift screensaver (by sandydoo)

    The code is open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/sandydoo/flux

  • Elm

    Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.

    Most of it is written in Rust and compiles to Wasm with WebGL/OpenGL bindings via glow. The settings panel is written in Elm and the whole project is compiled with Nix. There’s also a very basic native desktop app. I haven’t seen many examples of a complete setup like this, so hopefully this can serve as a template for anyone trying out a similar stack.

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