• 1984@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    Ive been using it for a month now, latest git version that is updated several times per day. For me, its just so nice to have a fully rust built desktop environment. Its fast, smooth animations, built in tiling window management etc. It doesnt use the gtk desktop library so everything from the ground up is rust. After having only gtk and qt for so long, its really nice to see a fresh window manager with all the advantages that comes with rust.

    I havent noticed bugs, just one missing feature: the drag and drop doesnt seem to work in the cosmic file manager if one side is a nfs networked file system. But its minor stuff like that remaining. Its pretty much like gnome otherwise. I dont miss anything. All the extensions I used from gnome are already default here, like tray icons.

    I think this environment has the best font rendering also. Its incredibly crisp on my 4k screen.

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      3 days ago

      What advantages come with rust? For a compiled program, I don’t see what benefits you get unless you are editing the source code.

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          2 days ago

          I write quite a bit of Rust, and I’m still at a loss.

          It’s easier to write a low-error program in Rust. But low-error program in any compiled language is going to be essentially identical.

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            2 days ago

            @jasory @1984 I suppose the main benefit/downside is that the apps will be monolithic and avoid DLL hell, hence more reliable in that way but also taking up more resources between them.