Blog post idea: Rust dependency spotlight

Herschel commented 1 year ago

A big part of Ruffle's success is from a perfect-storm of other crates from the Rust community. We could do a spotlight on some of our big dependencies that were key for us getting off the ground.

wasm-bindgen: Made Wasm a first-class citizen in Rust
wgpu: Portable GPU abstraction and gave us a head start for WebGPU on web
- naga: Transpile AGAL shaders, allowing Stage3D to function
winit: Desktop app
cpal: Desktop audio
sample: Audio, resampling
gc-arena: GC
lyon: Allowed us easy tessellation of shapes for the wgpu/WebGL backends
symphonia: MP3 parsing
who else?

Lord-McSweeney commented 1 year ago

What about quick-xml?

torokati44 commented 1 year ago

Two of our video decoders are from NihAV: https://nihav.org/ (https://codecs.multimedia.cx/)

They are both fast, have no external dependencies, their code is clean (few unwraps), and the developer is knowledgeable (an FFmpeg contributor), responsive, and was kind enough to relicense these parts of his code for us.

torokati44 commented 1 year ago

wasm-opt (Binaryen) is also nice.

danielhjacobs commented 1 year ago

egui now that the Desktop app has a UI using it.

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Blog post idea: Rust dependency spotlight #134