iced VS fltk-rs

Currently, I have narrowed potential libraries to: 1. Flutter 2. FLTK 3. Relm (GTK) 4. iced 5. Slint 6. Imgui, Imgui-rs 7. and gtk-rs

Lets take me as an example, I am a crossplatform GUI application developer, with C++ I have Qt which is an awesome, feature-rich and battle tested framework which runs on virtually any device and has it's own declarative UI language that makes UI development much more pleasant. What what would I go for with rust? The best I've found so far is iced (https://github.com/iced-rs/iced) which indeed looks nice, but at its current state, it is not remotely comparable to Qt. The last time I checked, It did not even support multi line text editing.

iced

Besides a browser based GUI you have many other options like egui, Iced etc. In this case you can still use HTTP for communication between your programs, but also sockets, and, if the programs run on the same machine, named pipes and shared memory (which is more efficient for sharing big data chunks).

If you want to use separate codebases, then you might consider egui, iced or gtk-rs for the desktop part.

I think this is something that iced is doing really well (which is inspired by elm which damn near did it perfectly, imo).

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.

I'm working on a project and I came up with a boilerplate project using https://github.com/iced-rs/iced and https://github.com/servo/ipc-channel, so maybe this is useful to someone. I have ongoing questions on how to integrate libraries with this project that I'm working on, so please PM me if you have any interest in helping. Non-monetary at the moment. Thanks. (Hopefully this isn't too tasteless, I think the example I've made may be useful to other people as is.)

Currently, I have narrowed potential libraries to: 1. Flutter 2. FLTK 3. Relm (GTK) 4. iced 5. Slint 6. Imgui, Imgui-rs 7. and gtk-rs

FLTK

The fltk-rs library provides Rust bindings for the FLTK toolkit. The fltk-rs crate supports old architecture with more than 80 customizable widgets and more than four supported theme schemes, including the GTK scheme. You can also use the fltk-theme crate for more customizations.

A friend of mine grew tired of plotting libraries that did not allow adding data points to his plot interactively like you can in Matlab, so he wrote one using FLTK using C++. I refactored his code a bit and then ported to Rust using the fltk-rs crate. Recently I needed this library for a project and I noticed I had not made it publicly available on Github. So I present to you the fltk-plot library!

fltk-rs is a Rust bindings crate for FLTK, the cross-platfrom & lightweight gui library.

Besides GTK I can recommend FLTK. It has been around for a long time and is very stable.

Finally, if you’re not familiar with a front end javascript library—maybe because you’re a backend developer—You might also want to look into libraries for programming languages that you’re familiar with. There are often wrappers for existing technologies like GTK, FLTK, Qt. For example, FLTK-rs for Rust, or the GTK3 gem for Ruby.

Work on the fltk-rs wiki. Maybe a book can come out of it.

try https://github.com/fltk-rs/fltk-rs, support everything you need. highly composable, fits with GL based randering and WGPU as well.