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New comment by adius in "Taguar – Desktop app for audio tagging"

adius — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:09:08 +0000

I tried out numerous audio tagging apps (Kid3, Picard, …) and wasn't happy with any of them. They all try to work with some kind of library system of have a really bad UX (single line input for Lyrics???).

Therefore I decided to build one that is simple, fast, with great defaults: https://github.com/ad-si/Taguar

It's built with Rust's [Iced] and [lofty].

Looking forward to your feedback!

[Iced]: https://iced.rs [lofty]: https://github.com/Serial-ATA/lofty-rs

Taguar – Desktop app for audio tagging

adius — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ad-si/Taguar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806109

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:52:47 +0000

Not yet, but on the roadmap!

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:32:04 +0000

Mh, I thought about this a little and came actually to exactly the opposite conclusion: Implement as much as possible in Rust to get the fastest code possible. Do you have any more insights why this should not be possible / unsustainable?

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:27:23 +0000

Why should I want them to use it?

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:20:37 +0000

Yeah, I've already looked into it, but decided to keep developing it "example driven" for now. Aka I'm playing around with it, and whenever I find something that's broken I keep a note of it and then I pick those notes one by one and implement them. Once the most common things are implemented I will start writing property tests to catch all the edge cases of each feature.

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:08:13 +0000

They rebranded it to Wolfram Language a few years ago (which I actually appreciate, as it is so much more than just "math" by now!)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/02/what-should-we-c...

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:52:09 +0000

Oh cool, haven't heard of this before. Could be a good fit - I'll have to try it out some day!

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:42:55 +0000

I think Wolfram Language is just so much more ergonomic. No need to import dependencies - everything's included and consistent, very readable - yet compact - syntax, less gotchas than Python, R, etc., sensible default, …

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:37:43 +0000

Hard to tell honestly. So far there was always some surprisingly straight forward solution If had any problems with the math engine. There is actually a lot of public research how equations can be solved/simplified with computer algorithms. So I'm optimistic. I also stumbled upon a few cases where Mathematica itself didn't quite do things correctly itself (rounding errors, missing simplifications, etc.). So maybe it's actually a little overhyped …

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:29:19 +0000

It's having ~ 5000 tests already. Used correctly, AI agents can help you improve the quality of the code!

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:25:32 +0000

Such a massive undertaking would be almost impossible without AI agents, so yeah, they help me. But with around 5000 tests, they are actually helping to improve the software quality!

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:21:33 +0000

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor...., a software clone does not infringe software copyright. So yeah, I'd guess sooner or later everything is going be cloned …

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:17:21 +0000

Exactly! And:

- Faster startup time because of no license check

- Can run multiple instances of Woxi at the same time

- Embeddable via WASM

- Configurable via compile time flags (which features should be included)

- …

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:14:22 +0000

That's actually a value that Wolfram determines themselves. Here is the documentation for it: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WolframLanguageDa...

Here is e.g. all the values for the Plus[] function:

$ wolframscript -code 'WolframLanguageData["Plus", "Ranks"]' {All -> 6, StackExchange -> 8, TypicalNotebookInputs -> 5, TypicalProductionCode -> 6, WolframAlphaCodebase -> 6, WolframDemonstrations -> 4, WolframDocumentation -> 4}

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:09:23 +0000

Sure, but you've got to start somewhere! And with the amount of progress I was able to make in just a few weeks, I'm very optimistic that the polish will come sooner rather than later.

New comment by adius in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

adius — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:53:31 +0000

Hi, I'm the main developer. We're steadily getting closer to the next release which will support most features of Mathematica 1.0 plus some of the most popular newer functions (> 900 overall!). AMA!

New comment by adius in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

adius — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:33:11 +0000

Yes, definitely! This is one of Mathematica’s hallmark features and it would not be complete without it.

New comment by adius in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

adius — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:40:12 +0000

https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi

New comment by adius in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

adius — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:29:59 +0000

Yes, we agree that a lot of the value comes from the huge standard library. That's why we try to implement as much of it as possible. Right now we support more than 900 functions. All the Data functions will be a little more complicated of course, but they could e.g make a request to online data archives (ourworldindata.org, wikidata.org, …). So I think it's definitely doable.

We also want to provide an option for users to add their own functions to the standard library. So if they e.g. need `FinancialData[]` they could implement it themselves and provide it as a standard library function.