redux-rs VS slint

From the first paragraph:

> ... Architectures that work well in other languages generally don’t adapt well to Rust, mostly because they rely on shared mutable state and that is not idiomatic Rust, to put it mildly. ...

The author doesn't mention Redux (the architecture), which is surprising. There are three principles[1]:

1. The global state of your application is stored in an object tree within a single store.

2. The only way to change the state is to emit an action, an object describing what happened.

3. Changes are made with pure functions.

In other words, the components of an application never mutate the state tree directly. Rather, they emit actions which re-generates the state tree without mutation.

This style of state management is compatible with Rust's ownership model. The emphasis on pure functions means that it's not necessary for your application to hold multiple mutable references, which I'm guessing underlies the "generally don't adapt well to Rust" part of the claim.

[1] https://redux.js.org/understanding/thinking-in-redux/three-p...

[2] https://github.com/jaredonline/redux-rs

Did you get a chance to check https://slint.dev?

Disclaimer: I work for Slint

Currently, we do it by using binaries through napi-rs so we can bring in a window using the platform native API. And then we do some hack to merge the event loops.

But if Deno supports bringing up a window directly, this means we can just ship wasm instead of native binary for all platform. And also I hope event loop integration will be simplified.

Although we'd also need more API than just showing a window (mouse and keyboard input, accessibility, popup window, system tray, ...)

[1] https://slint.dev

Rich Text content is not yet implemented. This is tracked in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/2723

Thanks for reporting the broken link. Fixed in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/commit/9200480b532f49007d2...

With Slint (https://slint.dev) we're trying to make a lightweight toolkit that doesn't use HTML/CSS. And that you can program either from low level languages such as C++ or Rust. As well as with higher level language such as JavaScript, and we want to extend to python too.

I haven't. I was just searching for a GUI library that was Bevy-compatible and slint isn't at the moment: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/discussions/940

Sorry!

Trying to do that with Slint: https://slint.dev

You can do that with Slint (https://slint.dev) and its linuxkms backend. No need for a xorg server or wayland compositor, just run the application made with Slint from the init script.