iced VS druid

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.

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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.)

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.

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 using egui, and it is easy to pick up, but you might be better served by druid. It's the ui that lapce is built on, so it's definitely capable.

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I tried druid it's pretty confusing it's not a huge deal but I want something simple so tried iced and none of the examples work and their book has been in construction for a long time now I don't see any updates on which direction to go, tried EGUI works but need something more native-like its pretty cool tho keeping on my list druid too.

For context I'm thinking something similar to the Lens derive macro from druid, which generates a type for each field: https://github.com/linebender/druid/blob/master/druid-derive/src/lens.rs

It's built with Druid. I have some experience with web development and have made an app with Iced. I'm not sure how I should be managing the large datasets, typical GTFS datasets have 10s or 100s of thousands of each object (Routes, Trips, Stops, Path Taken, etc) that all relate to each other (GTFS spec is basically just a SQL schema and the data is a zip file of CSVs). Maybe I should put all the data in the app's state and filter it with Druid, or maybe continuously update the app's to only contain the data that is currently displayed in the app, possibly with the data stored in SQLite.

The async story in current Druid is pretty difficult, you basically have to wire up an ExtEventSink. It's possible (see example) but not smooth.

Relm, Slint (formerly SixtyFPS), Druid and Iced are all very promising idiomatic GUI toolkits with a great deal of community activity around them, and all of those perform substantially better in the accessibility department than ImGui and egui, to my knowledge. areweguiyet.com can give you some more pointers as well.

What about Druid?