The Future of Recipya ☀

[reaper47]

You might have noticed a decrease in the amount of work done in the past few weeks. The reason is that I am rewriting Recipya in Rust 🦀 The Go project is not dead and will not be in the foreseeable future. The Rust project will one day become the de facto Recipya.

Why? I've been wanting to learn Rust since at least a year to tinker with electronics without touching C++, but I never had time nor motivation to do so because the language seemed too hard. After having pushed myself to read and finish The Book back-to-back, I decided to stop procrastinating and enjoy the language now. Rust has been a blast so far!

The work is currently done in a private GitHub repository, which I will make public once I feel the time is right.

Edit: Everything's set up and ready to go: https://github.com/reaper47/recipya-rs

[brandonkal]

But why develop in private? Why not public code with Issues and PRs disabled until you feel ready for contributions?

[reaper47]

I should have elaborated on that. I plan to make it public in a couple of weeks, once I have the skeleton of the project and a few endpoints in place to get the ball rolling. Collaborations would be more than welcome.

[reaper47]

The repo is now ready and has been made public.

[Yehuda-Bergstein]

Hey! is there an advantage to it being in Rust over Go?

[reaper47]

Hey hey! From a user's perspective, probably not much because Go is already fast. For example, it takes about 2-3 seconds to export over 650 recipes as PDF. The only slow part is calculating the nutrition facts. The UI will be the same.

From a developer's perspective, the strict compiler is a great asset. Once the program compiles, you can be sure there will be no crashes or problems related to memory, only the business logic. It also ensures safe concurrency. Recipya should be stable for years to come!

I believe a great advantage of using Rust for this project will be when we integrate machine learning stuff into it. For example, a CSP solver to automatically determine a weekly meal plan based on constraints.

[Yehuda-Bergstein]

Sounds great! thanks for the answer :-)