It adds the ability to edit existing links, show and download QR codes for easy sharing, and various improvements in the frontend. Check out the release note for a list of all changes.
I love projects like this. Do one thing, super well, without adding a kajillion dependencies. I love the vanilla HTML / CSS approach.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Looks like a good project, but I genuinely don’t quite understand why Rust projects feel the need to advertise “written in Rust” as a feature. Do you find that a lot of users care which programming language your app is written in? I don’t know which programming language most of my self-hosted apps use, and I don’t mind since they all work well and do their job.
Lightfire228@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Imo, it’s nice to see tools written in a memory safe systems language
Especially if you use a lot of them. More utility, less attack surface
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
This makes sense! You get the same advantage if the app uses Go or C# though, and both of those can compile to a single statically-linked executable too.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I mean, for myself personally if it were written in NodeJS or Python or something I’d be less interested.
And I don’t even care about Rust. It’s just that everything and their sister is written in NodeJS and Python. I say this as someone who founded a company that uses Python.
Also the more I hear about actual Rust adoption the more willing I am to consider it for the next big thing.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Does it matter if it’s running in Docker and the container is lightweight (say less than 50MB), though? I like apps being written in a language I know well so I can contribute if needed, but other than that, I mostly treat a Docker image as a black box.
SinTan1729@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
It’s just a way to advertise, I think. I’ve found myself putting more trust in projects written in Rust or Go, than say, JavaScript.
NatoBoram@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s advertising the inherent safety that comes from Rust and Go having errors as values. They’re just fundamentally better languages.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
People who are into systems languages would care and for newer languages the more people advertise their usage the more mainstream it becomes and then bigger more traditional companies would consider using it and that would help increase the size of that languages ecosystem and community so I’m okay with people adding written in Rust to their project descriptions
riskable@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
As an information security professional and someone who works on tiny, embedded systems, knowing that a project is written in Rust is a huge enticement. I wish more projects written in Rust advertised this fact!
Benefits of Rust projects—from my perspective:
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Thanks, this is a good insight.