Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

by 8s2ngy on 4/10/2025, 6:19:42 AM with 44 comments

  • by badlibrarian on 4/12/2025, 9:08:57 PM

    Runs great on an underpowered Roku in HTML and JavaScript. But I guess why not. Developers gotta developer.

    My main issue is having to buy my parents a bigger TV every few years because the fonts keep getting smaller and their eyes keep getting worse.

  • by jackothy on 4/13/2025, 1:57:51 AM

    Wish they had said something about open sourcing their SDK.

    They mentioned Leptos as an inspiration but this is clearly very different and has a lot of interesting features.

  • by gozzoo on 4/12/2025, 7:16:44 PM

    I'm not familiar with Rust or WebAssembly, but isn't Flutter more appropriate specifically for such applications?

  • by Aissen on 4/14/2025, 9:15:19 PM

    Isn't that the solution that Disney+ basically implemented at launch?

  • by pmkary on 4/13/2025, 9:05:47 PM

    Wow, I mean for a TV app, wow

  • by rgbrgb on 4/13/2025, 12:44:23 AM

    is it just me or does the prime video player seem to have a bug in chrome where the UI shows over the video and never goes away after pausing in full screen?

    wondering if that’s the UI in question

  • by MeetingsBrowser on 4/12/2025, 8:58:07 PM

    I'm not familiar with Prime or its Video UI. Wouldn't a YouTube front end be more appropriate to rebuild with this tech stack?