Text Pieces: A Rust-based Open Source App to Help Devs With Text Transformations (news.itsfoss.com)
from recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca to rust@programming.dev on 20 Jan 18:28
https://lemmy.ca/post/37573458

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/24505305

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CameronDev@programming.dev on 20 Jan 21:57 collapse

Seems a bit silly to install an app to do what cyberchef does in a browser. Is there something else I’m missing?

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 21 Jan 01:22 next collapse

Not everyone likes to do that in the browser. They are mostly full with ads or other nonsense that read more data of your browser than needed. In addition, its Open Source and you can verify and even update the code. I used such tools in the browser a few times and always hated it. Such a native tool written in Rust is much, much better in my opinion.

CameronDev@programming.dev on 21 Jan 01:42 collapse

Cyberchef is open source, and can easily be downloaded to run offline. No ads either.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 21 Jan 02:28 collapse

That’s nice. But its still a browser application written in JavaScript and not everyone likes using the browser for that. Having alternative options is always good. In example I lean more towards Rust and can read the code and make changes the way I want.

MadhuGururajan@programming.dev on 21 Jan 02:41 collapse

Is there something else I’m missing?

the rest of the universe? this why webdevs get mocked, you know…