jpochyla's comments

On: Effective Rust (2021)

[jpochyla]

This is... not how I would really write it. If `encrypt` takes a `&[u8]`, as it should, you don't need a `&vec![]` at all, and can do:

  self.payload.as_deref().unwrap_or_default()

...which I think is the best here.

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

Hi, thanks for being interested! There've been some regressions lately, sorry :| Performance is #1 priority for me, and a big focus now, after last round of refactorings.

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

Thank you! I took some time off after finishing my last full-time commitment, and wanted to cut my teeth on Rust a little bit -- exploring how feasible building cross-platform native apps is right now. So I've started building something that I'm missing and would like to use. Combine this with the pandemic, and here we are.

[golondon → jpochyla]

Thanks for the answer!

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

This is not really the case, you need a Premium account for Psst to work.

[mimimi31 → jpochyla]

I tested it before making the claim. It is definitely possible. The only limitation is that you can't stream at the highest bitrate.

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

Hi, I'm glad you like it! The performance is not _that_ good at the moment, mostly because of superfluous paints, but it's something I'd like to focus on (as it's one of the primary objectives).

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

Hi, the author here. Keyboard navigation is definitely something I'd like to focus on soon, the app should be 100% usable without a mouse. And accessibility is definitely on the Druid roadmap! <3

On: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

[jpochyla]

Hi, the author here. Psst is definitely in alpha, and the CLI is indeed just an example (it's what I was using to test the core mechanisms). I'm sorry the accessibility is so bad now, but Druid, the GUI library, takes it very seriously -- which is not very common in custom GUI frameworks. So, fingers crossed, it should get better soon.

Re. command-line Spotify clients, there is ncspot[1] and spotify-tui[2], and if you use Linux, Spot[3] looks like a nice GTK experience.

[1] https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

[2] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

[3] https://github.com/xou816/spot