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4,584 | 1,893 | |
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5 months ago | 11 months ago | |
CMake | JavaScript | |
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Ultralight
- Writing a TrueType font renderer
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Ode to the M1
> I hope Electron/CEF die soon, and people get back to building applications that don't consume hundreds of megabytes of RAM to render a hello world.
Web technologies are fine, but what we really need is some kind of lightweight browser which allows you to use HTML/CSS/JS, but with far lower memory usage. I found https://ultralig.ht/ which seems to be exactly what I am looking for, but the license is a major turn off for most paid services. It makes sense for smaller, indie projects to adopt it, but I haven't seen many "desktop apps" using this in the wild.
What I'd really like to see with CEF et al, is JS being dropped, in favor of directly controlling the DOM from the host language. Then we could, for example, write a Rust (or Kotlin, Zig, Haskell, etc) desktop application that simply directly manipulated the DOM, and had it rendered by a HTML+CSS layout engine. Folks could then write a React-like framework for that language (to help render & re-render the DOM in an elegant way).
Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems to have a decent bit of activity). It would be great if some group of devs could revive the project, or a company could fund such a revival.
Eventually, we'll need to reflect on, and explore whether HTML+CSS is really the best way to do layout, and we could maybe perhaps consider proting the Android/iOS layout approach over to desktop.
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Remember when this was 0% and 70 mb? This is comical.
tauri exists or if you wanted to ultralig.ht
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
I agree web stuff is really the best way to develop UIs. Good luck making responsive stuff in C++ for example. The paradigm of HTML, CSS, and JS is extremely powerful and even allows you to use canvas, webgpu, wasm.
There are multiple commercial projects that use web dev paradigm for GUIs:
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what do you think about alternative browser engines?
Nice review, thanks! There are also: Ultralight (based on Webkit), LiteHTML, Tkhtml3 and Lobo Evolution. See also timeline of web engines.
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Recommendations for JS Engines that could be embedded in my Game Engine
I have used https://ultralig.ht/, which uses web tech stack to render ui for desktop applications. It can be used in video games, so I assume the js engine has acceptable performance. It is based on webkit though.
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[Cpp] Une assez grande liste de bibliothèques graphiques C ++
Ultralight
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core-js maintainer: “So, what’s next?”
The more he mentions examples of huge websites using corejs the more it makes sense to me for corejs to have a license model similar to Ultralight, wherein you pay the software if your company crosses a certain revenue threshold.
web-view
- GUI libraries unrelated to GTK and QT
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Rust Webkit2GTK Ping Pong Example
I want get a pong back from the app process, but I cant figure out how. I do aware of Boscop Webview and webview_official, but I want to work with Webkit2GTK to have more controls. I really appreciate your kind help.
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Any stable crate to develop a cross-platform Rust desktop app?
I prefer Boscop/web-view since it's much less effort to get up and running for use with developing an application written in Rust.
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Rustpad: Collaborative text editing app using Tokio + Warp
Given that this can be self-hosted, any thoughts on making a desktop app with https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Electron substitute in rust?
I haven't used it, but some others have recommended webview in the past: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Making really personalised UI interfaces
As an alternative you can wrap this html ui using web-view or tauri. This would be like a lightweight alternative to electron.
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Tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
That would be https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Rust GUI like Python's Tkinter
There's also the option of using something like webview, with webasm and a framework like yew it makes for relatively light and easy to implement GUIs, without having to write any javascript.
What are some alternatives?
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
qt-ultralight-browser - Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine
FNA3D - FNA3D - 3D Graphics Library for FNA
mcpelauncher-manifest - The main repository for the Linux and Mac OS Bedrock edition Minecraft launcher.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Flexx - Write desktop and web apps in pure Python