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15 points JaTochNietDan 2 hours ago 7 comments

JaTochNietDan 2 hours ago | parent

I built (vibe coded with direction) a free, open source alternative to TablePlus.

The goal is high performance and easy to use just like TablePlus but without that nagging window asking you to pay to have more than 2 active tabs.

It also runs in the browser for a fun demo since it can be compiled to WASM.

Feedback is super welcome and I'm continuing to iterate upon it and am already using it as my daily driver and ironing out the kinks. It works well enough™ already but expect a few janky things here and there.

aslilac 1 hour ago | parent

> Yes, we support your silly OS as well. Windows and Linux users, you’re welcome.

yeah, the operating systems that underpin >90% of compute on the compute on the planet are silly and barely worth supporting.

this kind of “hey claude, write prose exactly as lame as usual but also make it snarky and rude in tone” writing is just fantastically bad.

cowlevel 1 hour ago | parent

GNU/Linux is only installed on a small percentage of end devices. Most are using Android/Linux, a different OS.

aslilac 36 minutes ago | parent

amongst developers that percentage is much less small, and this is a developer tool.

Klonoar 1 hour ago | parent

This is the kind of project where the death of “native” as a term is sad.

You’re not truly native if you’re using egui, you’re just a step above Electron & co. TablePlus is actually native and it shows.

If you’re vibe coding this shit, why can’t you just tell it to output platform specific things?

sampullman 37 minutes ago | parent

I wouldn't say it's just a step above electron, I think the term "native" has always been a little overloaded in this way. For example, a game that uses egui for the HuD/menus could be rightly called native compared to a web game.

You're talking about "native controls", which is more specific. That said, I don't see any reason why egui would be used over native controls for this type of app. They probably just didn't think to ask their AI.

I imagine with AI, something like libui-ng would be pretty easy to improve and maintain. Looks like development has stalled though.

F7F7F7 43 minutes ago | parent

Rust for-the-fuck-of-it rewrites have become the new Javascript because-we-can rewrites.

  "It’s Rust, compiled to WASM, running in your browser. Not a JavaScript rewrite. Just because we can. It’s Rust, dude. Try it."

Making the justification for this project's existence especially meta on so many levels.