Halloy is my spare-time project I’ve been working on for a little over a year. Halloy is an open-source IRC client written in #rustlang , using the Iced GUI library. I love the IRC, and I’m happy to be able to give something back to the community I’ve been connected to for over 20 years!
Really nice take on a cross-platform IRC client. It’s got a subdued and text-centric UI, but because it’s built with a GUI framework it’s got a few niceties that aren’t possible with a TUI in the terminal.
Till Wegmüller:
With all this said I would love to have some more rust folks in the illumos community. And I know this has been expressed by others as well. Userland tools are easy to make in Rust and I for one would love to have people help me with the new Installer and with the package Forge We have gained rust crates for our unique API’s such as libcontract Our new image builder for ISO’s is in rust image-builder and we are always looking for driver developers.
For folks wanting to dabble with Rust in a battle-hardened production open-source operating system Illumos seems like a great option.
My day job involves working on the Prince HTML to PDF converter. Simon Willison used LLMs to do the reverse:
Google Research released a PDF paper describing their new pipe syntax for SQL. I ran it through Gemini 1.5 Pro to convert it to HTML (prompts here) and got this—a pretty great initial result for the first prompt I tried!