It looks like I was right: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-applets/pull/282
20MB for every simple application is a lot, and multical binaries won’t be an option for third party developers.
This is still worth the much better DX of using Rust though.
Is there any plan to have something similar to the Gnome Circle apps for Cosmic? It’d be nice to encourage building a full ecosystem of app with libcosmic that can rival the apps of KDE/Gnome.
This is not relevant to this specific post but does anyone know how if the static linking used in Rust is an issue with cosmic?
The last time I tried building a small app with Iced it was pretty bing (20MB) even though it didn’t do much. On the other hand a GTK app in rust easily fits within 5MB.
Anyway I’m thrilled to try cosmic out as soon as it reached the Arch repos.
Why is helix there then?
I love flatpaks and flathub. They’re amazing for GUI apps, though there are still a couple of wrinkles that needs to be ironed out.
I would really love if it was better with regards to cli apps and developer tooling though. As someone that uses a lot of TUI apps that seriously limit how much I can use flatpak.
For dôme reason it’s broken for me. I had to open it in nightly for reader mode to work.
Unreadable on mobile…
But they don’t support the same API. This is completely off topic.
The backend is not
GTK is in bare C, which is rather easy to interop with Rust. Even if using GLib from Rust is a pain, GTK can and does have decent Rust bindings.
QT on the other hand is C++ with object oriented stuff, and therefore cannot have easy bindings to Rust.
I know that Asahi Linux uses Rust for its graphics driver but I don’t think it has been upstream yet.
I think it’s especially about Rust in the Linux kernel. There was a lot of fuss as the “foundation” for writing Rust drivers was merged, but since then there has been cvery few news about it going forward and being used to develop new drivers.
The language itself is obviously still going very strong.
I think the epic store is much lower.
Ultimately the 30% is as high as Steam estimates they can charge before they have to fear companies leaving their platform and bypassing steam altogether. Honestly I’m surprised it has not happened yet. 30% is super high, and users are not at all locked down like they are in the console market.
Does it?
They can also just sell the game on other platforms no?
Unlike every other company in their position they’re not complete assholes to consumers :
Most companies in their position would lock their users in, they don’t. That doesn’t mean they can’t be abusive though. 30% of game revenue is huge!
There was always a need for memory safety, we just didn’t know how to do it for low-level software and without significant performance decrease.
Now that we have the solution, it’s urgent to deploy it.
The issue is mostly not about paying for the info, but rather about how to obtain said info without collecting location data of all users in an intrusive way like Google does.
The context that lead DTolnay to write this: https://lemmy.world/post/4393780
And ThePhd didn’t like it: https://pony.social/@thephd/111005164984251004
I wasn’t thinking about applets but more about full-blown libcosmic applications.
Gnome Circle bas a lot of very simple apps that do just 1 thing and weight a couple MB each at worst.
With iced such an ecosystem would be at 20MB per app, so simple " don’t 1 thing and do it right" apps would be less scalable. And I doubt you would want to have all of gnome circle as a multicall binary.