femtovg VS druid

The problem with femtovg currently is, that it's based on OpenGL. There is a fork for wgpu already, but it's not up to date with master and I'm not sure how difficult merging will be.

You guys should also check out the femtovg project, a 2D rendering API that sixty fps relies on.

https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg

It's a decent starting point for trying to build your own toolkit.

I have recently added a wgpu backend but for now it lives in my fork https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg

run the demo with `cargo run --example wgpu_demo --release`.

Also join the femtovg discord https://discord.gg/V69VdVu

It's not a GUI framework but I'm involved with this project called femtovg, it's a Rust nanovg port. I've recently added a wgpu backend. Run the demo with cargo run --example wgpu_demo --release. Some people have been using it for their own UIs, e.g. tuix. I think that you should consider rolling your own GUI toolkit, it's not that bad and you'll appreciate the control.

I have been recently rolling my own Rust GUI framework using this rendering crate I’m invovled with https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg and I’m pretty happy with it.

I recently added a wgpu backend https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg.

Combine that with the Flutter layout (check out the Druid implementation), and you have a GUI framework.

I added a wgpu backend not too long ago, it’s in my fork for now femtovg.

SixtyFPS is a project started by Simon Hausmann and Olivier Goffart who previously worked on Qt at Trolltech.

SixtyFPS is the first project with a company behind it which uses femtovg, a Rust nanovg port. https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg.

Recently, we've added an experimental wgpu backend which is for now in my fork of the project https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg

For GUI applications, the story is mixed. There are several GUI frameworks in active development, but nothing as polished and battle-tested as Electron for TypeScript. There are bindings to GTK, but they're cumbersome to work with, and I wouldn't recommend it to a Rust newbie. There's also Tauri, which is a bit like Electron and lets you write the GUI in HTML/CSS/JS and the business logic in Rust.

Concerning GUI frameworks, the most common ones are druid, egui and iced. All three of them run native and on the Web.

Going to give a shoutout to druid. I've recently tried it with the Lapce editor and it's just so smooth, fast and works so well for a pre-alpha app.

As iced and egui were difficult for me, i started with druid.

There is Iced which is used by system76 in Pop!_OS, Druid [DISCONTINUED], GTK-rs, Relm, Azul and Tauri. Personally I would use Tauri for its speed using the OS's native web render, documentation of use with things such as Sveltekit and the ability to make UI's using JS, CSS and HTML. Tauri similarly to Electron whilst being far faster. But its up to personal preference really. There aren't any solid "go to" options at the moment.

Druid should be good for most cases, it has a lot of built-in widget for the UI, you can even make a custom widget with a canvas-alike painting API.

Druid, which is a Rust-native UI toolkit for building desktop applications targeting Windows/macOS/Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD, has a new version out - v0.8.

There's a memoize View node in the previous iteration of the Xilem prototype, but it hasn't made it in to the current branch yet. That sounds like what you're asking, but it's possible I'm missing something.

You can use GTK from Rust. But the Rust native ones aren't really there yet. [Iced](https://github.com/iced-rs/iced) which has been picked up by System76 and [Druid](https://github.com/linebender/druid) (and it's next gen version [Xilem](https://github.com/linebender/xilem)) are the ones to watch, along with Dioxus which is the main post here.

I'd expect there to be something useable by the end of 2023.