Gifski

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🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

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Observed mentions: 2019-09-19 14:44:08 UTC to 2023-11-19 19:48:11 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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BrianHenryIE·Nov 19, 2023

I just see now, there are two Gifskis, one Rust, one Swift. It's worth looking at the maintainer of the Swift one, he has 1000+ repos, many with 1000+ stars. * https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski * https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski * https://github.com/sindresorhus

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pornel·Sep 19, 2019

Unfortunately, you have to use C or ObjC (or at least the ObjC runtime) as the middleman. Now that there is a stable Swift ABI, at least it's theoretically possible to add a first-class Swift interoperability support to Rust, but it's a quite a chunk of work that nobody has attempted yet. Currently the practical approach is to write the UI in Swift and Rust on the back-end, e.g. gif.ski app does it this way: https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski

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