Meilisearch: Publish meilisearch-core and friends on crates.io?

[trevyn]

Curious if there's a reason this hasn't been done! It's certainly embeddable...

[MarinPostma]

Hello @trevyn !
This is certainly something we have in mind, and plan to do in a short future. In it's current form, Meilisearch core is not as embeddable as it may seem. It's interface have not been thought to be used without as a lib, and without http (and tokenizer, schema, etc...).

That being said, we are currently working on a new engine, that will make meilisearch a lot faster, and plan to release it as a standalone library. Stay tuned :+1:

[trevyn]

Awesome, looking forward to it!!

[cryptoquick]

There would certainly be obstacles, but as apps with Rust-native desktop GUI libraries become more popular, this tool could become a natural go-to for document search capabilities in desktop apps as people start using Rust to replace clunky, large, and slow Electron apps, for example. I use Sled for this purpose currently, and I would value this feature for this database, too.

[Kerollmops]

@cryptoquick thank you for saying that, this is really motivating to here that, fortunately we are working on making a real Rust library for the engine.