Xavier Womack·9wOkay.. we gotta talk about Rust
A beginner's three-month journey learning Rust, starting with the official Rust book and progressing through several projects: a guessing game, a terminal weather app, a desktop weather app built with Tauri and Svelte, and a voice chatbot combining local speech-to-text, Google Gemini, and ElevenLabs APIs. The author reflects on why they chose Rust for its low-level appeal and shares enthusiasm for the language despite its learning curve.
Laravel News·9wLaravel Adds an Official Svelte + Inertia Starter Kit
Laravel now offers an official Svelte starter kit, complementing existing React, Vue, and Livewire options. The kit combines Svelte 5 with TypeScript, Inertia 2, Tailwind CSS, shadcn-svelte, bits-ui, and Vite. Authentication is powered by Laravel Fortify and includes login, registration, password reset, email verification, and two-factor auth. The kit ships with sidebar and header layouts, multiple variants for each, and SSR support out of the box. New projects can be bootstrapped via `laravel new my-app` and selecting Svelte when prompted.