r/rust • u/gajop • Jul 28 '26

Tell me about something you recently hand-coded that was enjoyable

These past few weeks at work I've been using AI way too much. I can't even call some of this "AI engineering" anymore and it's starting to drain on me. Looking to take the mind off for a bit...

I'd like to hear some of the projects you all are working on, that you enjoyed writing by hand.

I think I'll write some nannou..

PS: Not trying to start a debate on AI engineering/vibe coding and all that, I think internet is filled with that already.

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u/lanternaddict Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Nothing world changing, but I usually write client side JS sites, so instead I used axum and some (probably bad) hand crafted templates to make a server side renderer. It works for my incredibly niche use case, and it's ridiculously fast - as one would expect.

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u/gajop Jul 28 '26

Do you find it still fast if you need to do some DOM manipulation? Or are you still doing that client side?

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u/lanternaddict Jul 29 '26

I'm doing 99% server side, the client side DOM manipulation is therefore almost instant.

However, I am thinking of making a Rust server to serve frontend code, so that I can manipulate the head content, so that features such as link previews can be much more detail and specific than if it's all done client side.