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freya
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Ebou Released 🚀: A (mostly full featured) cross platform desktop Mastodon client written in Rust + Dioxus
Awesome, when it's properly release I'll give it a try with freya (https://github.com/marc2332/freya, a skia-based renderer for Dioxus I am making)
- GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
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What is the most fully-featured rust frontend framework?
Or if you don't care about web compatibility, you can use Dioxus' state management with Freya which is more complete and renderers natively with Skia
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XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox
There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche:
- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today)
- https://github.com/vizia/vizia
- https://github.com/marc2332/freya
- https://github.com/linebender/xilem (currently very incomplete but exciting because it's from a team with a strong track record)
What is also exciting to me is that the Rust GUI ecosystem is in many cases building itself up with modular libraries. So while we have umpteen competing frameworks they are to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have:
- https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation)
- https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of vulkan/metal/dx12)
- https://github.com/linebender/vello (a canvas like imperative drawing API on top of wgpu)
- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms)
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing)
- https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs)
In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui for a more complete list of frameworks and foundational libraries)
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Declarative UI Programming in Rust for Native Applications
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus (which has native rendering in the form of https://github.com/marc2332/freya)
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Taffy 0.3: UI layout in Rust, now with css-grid!
There hasn't been too much progress on Blitz in the last few weeks (it will come), but there is now a new project Freya which is using a Dioxus frontend and rendering with Skia. That's currently using it's own layout system instead of Taffy though.
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Rust GUI framework
Freya
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What's everyone working on this week (6/2023)?
A native GUI library https://github.com/marc2332/freya
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Looking for feedback on the next version of viewbuilder! The UI framework with a new a compose-like API
Since you’re working with Taffy and Skia, have you checked out Freya? There’s more room for innovation in the more tightly scoped niches of this kind.
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Making Dioxus (almost) as fast as SolidJS
Marc has also made some really good progress on a skia renderer but I don't think it is ready for production yet.
rustapi
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What's everyone working on this week (6/2023)?
Found a quite useful template, https://github.com/ndelvalle/rustapi from Nicolas. I'll be striping and adapting it until I get something raw ;)
What are some alternatives?
iced_taffy - Library for using Taffy layout with the Iced GUI framework. It currently provides a single Grid component for 2D grid layout.
avored-rust-cms - Avored rust content management system
xilem - An experimental Rust native UI framework
rust-s3-async-ffi - Asynchronous streaming of AWS S3 objects in C and C++ powered by rust-s3
steel - An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
crusty-rustacean-api - A repo for the API created in support of my Rust blog, inspired by Zero to Production in Rust
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
tin - Rust GraphQL Template 🏗️
blitz - High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered by WGPU
banner - Experimental CI/CD system
tofiks - UCI chess engine written in Go