Ajour
Games
game addon manager
SHOW HN2020
90points
55comments
#715of 3,028 in 2020
Top 24%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Execution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple look suits the tool
From 1 comment
I like it a lot. But by saying that, don't get confused by the overall state Rust GUI applications are in: immature[0]. I have a background in native iOS and macOS development…
culinary-robot on HN
Nice work on the project
From 2 comments
Nice, any chance you would expand it to manage Elder Scrolls Online addons as well? Great work.
ajmarsh on HNAwesome! I have lots of fond memories from the days of writing World of Warcraft addons (CTMod, CT_RaidAssist, ...). Great to see the community is still going.
eandre on HN
Objections
Code base has a single function over 900 lines
From 1 comment
Is that a common thing in GUI to have a single function over 900 LoC? https://github.com/casperstorm/ajour/blob/master/src/gui/update.rs#L21…
Thaxll on HN
Requests
Support for Elder Scrolls Online addons
From 1 comment
Nice, any chance you would expand it to manage Elder Scrolls Online addons as well? Great work.
ajmarsh on HN
Mention iced in the README
From 1 comment
Ah, it's using iced, good to know! Would make sense to mention that in the project's README...
rob74 on HN
Questions
Experience using Rust for GUI and iced
From 1 comment
How was your experience with Rust for GUI and also using iced?
avinassh on HN
Why a Makefile is used instead of build.rs
From 1 comment
Why is there a Makefile? Can that not be done in the build.rs?
mlindner on HN
Alternatives named
WeakAuras
From 1 comment
The boss mod addons are still king, but over the past couple expansions a tool called WeakAuras has been getting really popular. It lets you make little displays that pop up or…
jabroni_salad on HN
Curse / Twitch client addon manager
From 1 comment
Some metacontext for those who don't know: Curse was the de facto WoW addon manager. Then Twitch acquired Curse and absorbed the addon manager functionality into their client.…
minimaxir on HN