Hey all!

I've just published a small crate, and would like to take the occasion to not only announce this, but also make typst better known in the rust community, because I think it's awesome :)

What does this do?

It provides a derive macro to derive typst::foundations::IntoValue for a struct.

Why would I want that?

If you're using typst as a library, chances are you want to get data into your documents. Rather than using a templating library or rolling your own, I'd suggest using inputs (I'm still excited being made aware of that!), which implies making a Value out of your data. typst_macros provides the possibility to derive Cast, which includes the treasured IntoValue... for enums. This is a gap somewhat closed by this crate.

So what about this typst?

typst is a typesetting system (akin to LaTeX) written in Rust. The core and cli are licensed freely, and it is very useable up to the point that I personally don't use latex anymore, but have switched to typst. I'm personally ultra-fond of the ability to use typst as a library, which makes it perfect for apps that want to produce high-quality documents from user-provided data.

Any questions, comments, criticism, code reviews welcome! Also, give typst a shot.

I’m working on a big project in #Rust, there is toolset and API for #Playdate.

All going great, moving to stabilization step by step, but so tired of looking at the dull amount ⭐️.

Project repository, mastodon.

Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

We fixed a couple of bugs and improved the support for Aarch64 which was requested by some people.

Hello again!!

Sorry for the big delay in the announcements. I know it has been a long time I have not made any announcements, but I will try my best next time this doesn't happen again.

So, through the medium of this post I would like to share with you all the v1.15.0 major release version of the websurfx project which was released on the 25th of March.

If you are new, and you don't know what is websurfx then I would suggest taking a look at my previous post here:

https://programming.dev/post/2678496

Which covers in depth about what the project is and why it exists.

Credits

Before I share with you the changelog, what this release version means and a preview on what we are planning to work on for the next major release v2.0.0. I would first like to thank all our contributors and maintainers because of whom this was all possible. Specially I would like to thank spencerjibz, ddotthomas and evanyang1 who have been invaluable to the project. Also, Websurfx would not have been possible without alamin655 and xffxff early involvement.

Thanks 💖 to all the people involved in the project

Now, let's dive straight into what this release version actually means.

What does this release version means

This new release version v1.15.0 introduces the new ranking algorithm for search results on the search page which ranks the results based on the relevancy to the user's search query.

Changelog

The changelog of all the changes can be found here:

https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx/releases/tag/v1.15.0

Preview of the goals for the next major release

• Different levels of privacy to choose from with the help of rust's conditional compiling features (In progress).
• Even more engines will be supported.
• Categories would be added to search results like images, news, etc.
• More themes will be provided by default
• More animations for the websurfx frontend will be supported.
• Multi language support would be added.
• I2p and tor support will be provided.
• Reduce animations would be added for those who don't want animations and effects on the frontend.
• And lots more ✨.

Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

efs is a recently published no-std library which provides an OS and architecture independent implementation of some UNIX filesystems in Rust.

Currently only the ext2 filesystem is directly implemented, but I will soonly work on other filesystems!

It's still young so it may contain bugs, but it's hugely tested so that it does not happen.

Some of the features provided :

• no_std support (enabled by default)

• General interface for UNIX files and filesystems

• read/write regular files

• retrieve, add and remove directory entries directly from a path and a current working directory.

I hope you will find this useful! If you have any remark, idea or issue, do not hesitate to ask here or to submit an issue!

The maintainer here! Feel free to ask questions. I know especially CAM16 can feel a bit abstract if you aren't in the loop, but I will try to answer what I can. I have tried my best to explain the concepts in the docs, but it can always be better.

This was a really good summary of what Rust feels like in my opinion. I'm still a beginner myself but I recognize what this article is saying very much.

The hacker news comments are as usual very good too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

Docs.rs is great, but if you want to host yourself it's pretty easy.

Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?