For my library, I want to replace async_std by smol, since the former has been deprecated in favor of the latter. This is mostly just a simple translation (different module structure, names etc.), but what I don't know is how to replace async-std's stdin. Anybody got a hint on that?

If you belong to the group of people playing World of Warcraft on linux somewhat competitively (there must be dozens of us!), you might be interested in progrs. It is an alternative to warcraftrecorder and used to create videos of your play. It monitors the combat log for interesting events (for now, deaths of players) and creates chapters in the video for easier searching. For now, only "encounters" are supported (might mean just raid bosses, but I've not done any testing in M+), but each try will end up its own video, just as in warcraft recorder.

I'd be glad for anyone trying it out and giving feedback.

Typst is "A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn". It's written in Rust, and particularly attractive because, while providing a CLI interface, it is a proper library that you can easily incorporate into your progress to produce documents. Protip: If you do so, have a look at sys.inputs, it's awesome!

This article very much conveys what I think.

Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use

Typst is awesome, in particular if you want to generate documents programmatically.

Hey all!

I've just published a small crate, and would like to take the occasion to not only announce this, but also make typst better known in the rust community, because I think it's awesome :)

What does this do?

It provides a derive macro to derive typst::foundations::IntoValue for a struct.

Why would I want that?

If you're using typst as a library, chances are you want to get data into your documents. Rather than using a templating library or rolling your own, I'd suggest using inputs (I'm still excited being made aware of that!), which implies making a Value out of your data. typst_macros provides the possibility to derive Cast, which includes the treasured IntoValue... for enums. This is a gap somewhat closed by this crate.

So what about this typst?

typst is a typesetting system (akin to LaTeX) written in Rust. The core and cli are licensed freely, and it is very useable up to the point that I personally don't use latex anymore, but have switched to typst. I'm personally ultra-fond of the ability to use typst as a library, which makes it perfect for apps that want to produce high-quality documents from user-provided data.

Any questions, comments, criticism, code reviews welcome! Also, give typst a shot.

... might be interesting for most people