Rewrite in Rust

[Jake-Shadle]

This crate basically provides a thin wrapper around the nativefiledialog C library, which itself is just a small abstraction on top of the OS dialogs. While nativefiledialog is small and easy to build, there's really no good reason why we can't go directly to the OS dialogs inside Rust without needing to have a submodule/wrapper for a C library.

[repi]

I have a crate that is a start for that and that does it natively for Windows and that works really well, but we would need to implement Linux and MacOS support, which is a bit messy.

[PolyMeilex]

I had working Linux and Windows crate laying somewhere on my hard drive, but I abandoned it because I have no way to test macOS implementation
It's totally doable, and it does not require that much work, so let me know if you decide to work on project like this.

[adamnemecek]

@PolyMeilex @repi why don't you guys post these online?

[PolyMeilex]

Sure, for anyone interested here is my project (for win,gtk,macos and wasm) https://github.com/PolyMeilex/rfd
It also supports async/await syntax, which helps a lot with macOS dialogs, as those can't be multi threaded.
Feel free to give it a try.

[repi]

hi @PolyMeilex, @emilk in our team have switch us at Embark to use your new crate now, awesome work on it!

We'll test it for a bit now across platforms and see if we run into any issues. but if it works well I think we'll close and archive this crate and repro and redirect to rfd!

[repi]

@PolyMeilex would be cool to collaborate on some crates and chat, ping us on our Discord or drop us a mail on [email protected] if you are interested :)

[PolyMeilex]

Hi! If you encounter any problems, or missing features in rfd fell free to open issues, I'm quite open to the scope of the crate, so as long as it's dialog related (not necessarily file dialogs) I will most likely accept it.

[parasyte]

I'll add that I used rfd's async impl with pollster in one of my projects last month and it was a super smooth experience. Just a positive experience report. I haven't noticed anything missing or any bugs to address.

[repi]

We've transitioned fully over to rfd now and haven't had any problems since on Windows, Mac or Linux. Thanks @PolyMeilex !

So think we can consider this issue closed. And we can close/deprecate/archive this crate and repo. Filed #22 for that.

[PolyMeilex]

Great to hear that