But you're right that the UI layer is still HTML/CSS rendered in a webview. It's not SwiftUI or Win32. Tauri gets you closer to native than Electron, smaller binaries, lower memory, OS-level webview, but it's not the same as writing Cocoa or GTK directly.
For what this project does (AI generating full apps), Tauri hits a good tradeoff: one codebase, all platforms, real system access, and the AI is much better at generating React than platform-specific UI frameworks. I tried to do the same with Swift it, fails meserably
What does this have to do with Tauri? Besides, that's apples to oranges. Zed has a lot more features, if you don't want that then Sublime is a better pick.
> frizlab: […] while Zed is nice, Sublime is better.
> ramon156: What does this have to do with Tauri?
Not @OP but I imagine they are thinking: “because Zed is built on top of Tauri and Sublime Text is not.” Sublime Text’s user interface is built on top of a mix of (native) UI renderers for each major OS [1], mostly based on Google’s 2D graphics library: Skia https://skia.org/ . Recent versions (v3) go even lower: Vulkan and OpenGL https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...
Wait, what, Zed is Tauri? How?
One of their main things was that they implemented the UI layer completely from scratch using their own GPU-accelerated rendering engine.
It's got none of that browser-type stuff.
I'm using that as well but had issues with tunneling where it creates the tunnel in the background and terminates and so you might not know the random port it assigned or I couldn't figure out how to un-tunnel it and tunnel again to the same port. Just bypassed the control master then.
There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.
Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.
There's very good OCR models. Then it becomes a matter of which letter is which. In Latin script there's only 26 possibilities, and then there's numbers and symbols.
not as simple as just OCR and map though. Some letters want space above them some want to be placed lower.
take g and f and c for examples
g and f are about the same height but different ofsets, and c would look like a capital C if scaled to the same size as g and f. (we probably want to auto adjust scales to match more evenly unless the text is on a grid (in case removing the grid is the difficulty)
These are just the difficulty I found by trying to make a more automated input to fontforge.
Mistral OCR is OCR combined with LLM. In English, it as simple as 'just good OCR' though. Check the example on the webpage I linked. The screenshot doesn't show perfect handwriting. The (invisible) line also doesn't go straight.
FTA:
> Handwriting: Mistral OCR accurately interprets cursive, mixed-content annotations, and handwritten text layered over printed forms.
> Forms: Improved detection of boxes, labels, handwritten entries, and dense layouts. Works well on invoices, receipts, compliance forms, government documents, and such.
> Scanned & complex documents: Significantly more robust to compression artifacts, skew, distortion, low DPI, and background noise.
> Complex tables: Reconstructs table structures with headers, merged cells, multi-row blocks, and column hierarchies. Outputs HTML table tags with colspan/rowspan to fully preserve layout.
You can use a picture of anyone's handwriting. There's high res pictures of medieval monks handwriting and so on that probably would be really cool as fonts.
Am I crazy to think there should be some way to stop this? It's utterly anticompetitive, but ai don't know any country where they bother trying to stop a small company buying/killing its competitors.
Seems like open source is the way to defeat this. Anyone can easily create a competing service, which they then have to buy out, but the cost of setting up a new one is minimal. Interesting business model that feeds on anti-competitive businesses.
The competition to Overleaf is just running LaTeX locally, which costs approximately zero dollars and it's faster! But it's a little less convenient for a solo author, and a lot less convenient for a collaboration.
I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.
You'd think this should encourage people to build carbon-copies of the tools that have been bought out in the hope of being bought out... It's only a sustainable model if it's fringe enough and with low enough purchase amounts to not eventually become an exit strategy for people who might not even have tried otherwise.
Fair question. Development was done in a private repo — we squashed the history into a single commit when open-sourcing. That's a deliberate policy choice (clean public history), though I understand it makes it harder to evaluate the project's evolution.
WASM package is already published: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cooljapan/oximedia — format probing, container demuxing, zero-copy buffers all work in-browser. A live web demo is next on the list.
Yeah, it's one of those features where after getting used to it you just can't understand why not every browser has it. I remember trying to copy an image from OneNote and conveniently in the custom content menu there is a button to copy the image. The only thing it does however is tell you it doesn't work and to use Cmd+C instead, which doesn't work either. So Shift + Right Click saves the day again.
I would say that depends. When it tries to upsell Prime subscriptions into even more Amazon subscriptions I always interrupt it and say the command again so it stops, but a few times it told me "this item in your cart is on sale by some %" and that did make me buy the item.
This tool seems very promising and does solve a real issue I've certainly had quite a few times already where this would have been very useful.
I really like the website design and content-wise, as well as the detailed writeup here on HN. Certainly impressive work for an individual.
I've never used Time Machine but I do have kopia set up for frequent backups of important places, like the entire Documents folder. It does use a CAS as well and last time/size/hashes for determining what to save.
Coming from that I'm curious about a few aspects. Would this work well for larger folders/files? You mentioned deduplication, but does that happen on the file level or on chunks of the file, so that small changes don't store an entire new version of the file? Additionally, are the stored files compressed somehow, probably a fast compression algorithm? I think that could make it work for more than just source code.
Great project though, so far. I could see it becoming a lot more popular given an open source code base. Maybe a pricing model like the one Mac Mouse Fix uses would work, being open source and charging a fee so small it still reaches a large audience. That would likely be fair considering the developer time/agent cost of just a single unf'd problem as ROI.
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