cxx-qt
Safe interop between Rust and Qt (by KDAB)
Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
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| cxx-qt | Native Windows GUI | |
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| 28 | 12 | |
| 907 | 1,898 | |
| 6.6% | - | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| - | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cxx-qt
Posts with mentions or reviews of cxx-qt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
- Cxx-Qt: Use Qt from Rust
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Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
My employer, KDAB, is building an excellent Rust binding for Qt: https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt
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I like rust but want to use Qt.
You can use cxx-qt or qmetaobject-rs. Or use Slint
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Build a desktop app with Qt and Rust
Rust has several Qt bindings. The most popular are Ritual, CXX-Qt, and qmetaobject. Ritual is not maintained anymore, and qmetaobject doesn't support QWidgets. So CXX-Qt is our best bet for now.
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DAW Frontend Development Struggles
Qt bindings for Rust also exist, although I'm not sure how mature they are: https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt/
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Build a desktop app with Qt and Rust - LogRocket Blog
We're getting closer, but you're still likely to run into missing features in CXX-Qt at this point. If you do, please report it on GitHub!
- GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
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Who "owns" Rust ?
This is no longer required in CXX-Qt as of this week (https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt/pull/428). Next release coming soon.
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The first issue of Rust Magazine has been published 🎉🎉
From my understanding KDAB isn't trying to "replace" Qt. They're working on cxx-qt to make using Qt and Rust together much easier.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
I second this. I wrote an internal Qt/QML app that ran on Windows, Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pis. We had ~20 Raspberry Pi's running this app in kiosk mode. If only KDAB/cxx-qt[1] were ready there, I would have done as much as possible in rust .
- [1] https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt/
Native Windows GUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of Native Windows GUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
- I have 0 coding experience or knowledge. I used ChatGPT to create code that would automate 80% of my work and I don't know how to deal with this newfound power
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Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs.
- Minimum effort Windows GUI choice?
- Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
- A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
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Good Rust System Tray Library?
My crate native-windows-gui supports tray application, if you only care about Windows. Example: https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui/blob/master/native-windows-gui/examples/system_tray_d.rs
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What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
Created a small resident windows program that shows a different icon depending on battery level test how easy using windows-rs and native-windows-gui is. Picked this as an easy learning project after seeing Battery Buddy for macOS.
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WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
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The state of gui libraries in rust?
If you only need to support Windows desktop, then let me shill my crate: native-windows-gui. It's super lightweight and it wraps pretty much all the gui stuff provided by win32. Just note that isn't really customizable look-wise.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cxx-qt and Native Windows GUI you can also consider the following projects:
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
qt6ct - Qt6 Configuration Tool
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
crates.io - The Rust package registry
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
miniserve - 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
gyroflow - Video stabilization using gyroscope data
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
bonsai - A library for building dynamic webapps, using Js_of_ocaml
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.