Rust will take time - it has a few concept that I haven’t seen in javascript/python/java/C++ family of languages. But it gives “zero-cost abstractions” i.e. a way to write high-level code without any performance penalty. And it has great tooling and WASM support, which is what you’d be after.

But as I said, it is all not worth it now, just for this application.

From what I read, it could easily be a tauri app, without a backend: just index.html in your system’s webview.

I did also forget to say it does look very nice, with animations and proper polish!

If you do delve into improving the performance, I suggest using Rust and no_std crates for dealing with images, such as https://docs.rs/zune-jpeg/latest/zune_jpeg/.

It would probably take some time to get it working, but it would probably increase performance and support any format you can find a crate for. But it does not seem like it’s worth it.

I’ll add this to my list of “things I might to when I don’t have a side project to waste my time on” :D

If you are interested (and can pull together a bit of funding) I can look into how we could do this optimization in WASM.

It’s JavaScript.

And it is slow, but not as slow as I expected it to be. I’ve optimized a photo I’ve taken with my DSLR, 6.3MB, 24MP, JPEG. It has taken ~50sec on this phone, in Firefox.

I know, it’s a phone, but also, my phone can and does save, optimize, and apply filters to such images in <1sec.

Wait, how does this work in-browser? Does it send the photos to the local server where image magick does the job, or is it using javascript to read/write images, or does it contain WASM to do that?

We could have a tag for things like this (if tags are a thing on lemmy) or a required prefix, such as "Software release: ".

I do like to see an announcement for things I use and have slow release schedule.

Hmmm, I repurposed an old PC of mine, only buying large WD red HDDs. If I were to expand, I’d ask friends/family if anyone has an old box to sell. And maybe buy a server rack. Second option would be “used goods websites” and only after that I would be looking to buy new.

That’s because jellyfin+immich+planka+a few static websites really don’t need that much compute power. The heaviest work to be done is playing a movie, which could be done by a laptop. Unless you are planning for many users to use the server at the same time.

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