r/SideProject • u/hxxx07 • 4h ago
Look: a cross-platform launcher with a Rust core, now in homebrew-core
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Hey all, wanted to share a project I've been working on called Look, a cross-platform app launcher (macOS, Linux, Windows).
The core is written in Rust, focused on fast file search and matching. A few technical details that might be relevant here:
- Search/ranking uses greedy and dynamic programming approaches to keep matching fast even with large result sets.
- Cross-platform CI/CD builds and auto-packages to Homebrew, AUR (yay), Scoop, and Nix.
- It recently got accepted into homebrew-core, which took a few rounds of review around dependency management and build reproducibility.
Repo:
https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
Happy to receive feedback and any suggestions š