I like TypeScript

It's pretty great. If anything because it shows me how valuable the compile-time guarantees of Rust are. In turn, Rust shows me how to leverage the build-time guarantees of TypeScript. I might even revisit C++ to start appreciating Rust from the other side — I'm getting into pretty serious zealotry here, though, so maybe later. But also I like TypeScript because it's super flexible with a huge ecosystem. And most importantly, I'm pretty familiar with it so it's comfortable to use.

I like the idea of being fairly familiar with each of them and using them for what they're good at. I think a solid foundation in both will help me leverage a lot of other tools/languages as well. It's hard to define what types of programs Rust is good for and I'm not even sure you can say it's necessarily good for a webserver, but a webserver is at least a pretty simple frontend for a system's logic — and I think encoding logic is something I can say Rust is good at.

What do I know, though? Anyway, just wanted to write a post to say I don't think I'll be continuing to use Dioxus for my DB Client project. Going to give Tauri a try, I don't need to be trying the exotic pieces of a language and ecosystem that I'm still essentially a newcomer in — or I can at least give myself the leniency to bail out of the exotic bits I have tried.

function testingSomeStuff() {
    console.log('hi bud');
}

Hey neat, got code blocks looking nice — totally worth the included JavaScript, though I guess the floodgates are open now.

Edit 2025-11-26: I was previously using highlight.js, but why!? Seems weird to have the browser do it when I already know the contents and language type of the code block...

So instead I'm using syntect. Not nearly as convenient, I had to download Sublime just to convert the tmLanguage syntax file to a sublime-syntax file, but at least I get the effect pre-read. Don't even have to worry about any FOUCs. Don't have to give a FOUC... and the floodgates are closed again.