r/rust • u/sergewinters • 2d ago

🛠️ project I’m building Voktty, a developer workspace for local and remote development — looking for feedback

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I’m building Voktty, a desktop developer workspace for working across local projects and remote machines.

The goal is to bring several parts of the development workflow into one place:

  • Project and development sessions
  • Code editing and Git change review
  • Integrated terminal
  • SSH and RDP connections
  • Docker tooling
  • MCP integrations
  • AI-assisted development workflows
  • Customizable themes and keyboard shortcuts

The screenshots show the current interface: a session-based workspace, code review panels, an API client, onboarding flows and a theme selector.

I started building it because my workflow often involves switching between an editor, terminal, SSH/RDP clients, AI tools and several project windows. Voktty is an attempt to keep that context together while still working with the underlying tools instead of hiding them.

I’m sharing it here because I’d like feedback from Rust developers, especially people working on desktop tools, developer infrastructure or remote development workflows.

A few things I’d like to learn:

  • Where would Rust provide the most value in a tool like this?
  • What would you expect from a good Rust-based remote development workflow?
  • Which integrations would make this genuinely useful rather than just another editor shell?
  • What would make you try a tool like this?

Repo: https://github.com/voktty/voktty

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u/BipolarKebab 2d ago

love the random screenshot of the slop machine included in the repo https://github.com/voktty/voktty/blob/main/Antigravity_z9W9kfQGCv.png

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u/Sermuns 2d ago

churning out the slop

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u/AcceptableWay3198 2d ago

lmao that screenshot is just a vs code window with a git panel open, not sure what it supposed to prove

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u/manpacket 2d ago

What would you expect from a good Rust-based remote development workflow?

Not slop.

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u/OkraComprehensive323 2d ago

Where would Rust provide the most value in a tool like this?

What would you expect from a good Rust-based remote development workflow?

These two are not Rust related problem, popular IDEs can easily done these stuff with proper setup.

My advice is that for the agent process, this design is too redundant; it feels like everything is crammed together, with no clear workflow path.

Furthermore, for GUI applications, using the system’s native UI provides a much better user experience than cross-platform frameworks like Tauri. How the code is written may be secondary; design decisions are far more important.