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druid
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What can rust do
For GUI applications, the story is mixed. There are several GUI frameworks in active development, but nothing as polished and battle-tested as Electron for TypeScript. There are bindings to GTK, but they're cumbersome to work with, and I wouldn't recommend it to a Rust newbie. There's also Tauri, which is a bit like Electron and lets you write the GUI in HTML/CSS/JS and the business logic in Rust.
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Do Rust and Lua work well together?
Concerning GUI frameworks, the most common ones are druid, egui and iced. All three of them run native and on the Web.
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What was the hardest coming from C++ to Rust?
Going to give a shoutout to druid. I've recently tried it with the Lapce editor and it's just so smooth, fast and works so well for a pre-alpha app.
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What GUI libs are out there and good to use?
As iced and egui were difficult for me, i started with druid.
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Rust GUI framework
There is Iced which is used by system76 in Pop!_OS, Druid [DISCONTINUED], GTK-rs, Relm, Azul and Tauri. Personally I would use Tauri for its speed using the OS's native web render, documentation of use with things such as Sveltekit and the ability to make UI's using JS, CSS and HTML. Tauri similarly to Electron whilst being far faster. But its up to personal preference really. There aren't any solid "go to" options at the moment.
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What do people use for simple UI projects?
Druid should be good for most cases, it has a lot of built-in widget for the UI, you can even make a custom widget with a canvas-alike painting API.
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Druid, a Rust-native UI toolkit, released v0.8 after two years of work by 80 contributors.
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.
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Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
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.
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Are there any good UI/GUI libraries out there?
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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Pure Rust GUI Landscape
Druid
femtovg
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Recommended UI framework to draw many 2D lines?
Femtovg (https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg) which uses OpenGL to render
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tinydraw 0.1.1
Congrats! I don't want to diminish the accomplishment, but have you seen femtovg? It seems like it's probably well-aligned with your needs.
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Bevy vector graphics library?
I'm currently using femtovg for vector graphics in my games, and I would like to get into bevy by porting one of my game prototypes using it to bevy.
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Decision paralysis: ggez or macroquad
I use femtovg It's a simple vector graphics engine having all the important features you probably want from a 2D rendering engine: simple shapes, images, text
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femtovg VS lyon - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 21 May 2022
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Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg/pull/5
Before Power10 was done, IBM actually asked us Raptor users about proposals for useful machine code instructions to add to it. I replied that I’d like to have hardware UTF-8 de-/encoding but they wanted a more detailed proposal and I never got around to write it. I’m not even sure that this would be worthwhile, but I see UTF-8 de-/encoding everywhere in the code I write and would like it to approach memory read/write speeds.
I was very disappointed to learn that they had gone more proprietary with Power10 so I would not have been able to use those instructions anyway. What a pity!
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
You guys should also check out the femtovg project, a 2D rendering API that sixty fps relies on.
https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg
It's a decent starting point for trying to build your own toolkit.
I have recently added a wgpu backend but for now it lives in my fork https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg
run the demo with `cargo run --example wgpu_demo --release`.
Also join the femtovg discord https://discord.gg/V69VdVu
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Any recommended resources for beginning graphics with Rust
I'm involved with the femtovg project. We are definitely looking for contributors. Join the discord channel.
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Good GUI toolkit/library recommendations needed
It's not a GUI framework but I'm involved with this project called femtovg, it's a Rust nanovg port. I've recently added a wgpu backend. Run the demo with cargo run --example wgpu_demo --release. Some people have been using it for their own UIs, e.g. tuix. I think that you should consider rolling your own GUI toolkit, it's not that bad and you'll appreciate the control.
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WASM-only web browser
I'm currently using some graphics library (femtovg), which alredy works well with wasm. It currently uses OpenGL as a backend, but there already exists a WGPU backend, which is not merged yet. So generally I'd prefer, if only WGPU is supported, but since more programs are still written on top of OpenGL it might be a good idea to support WebGL as well.
What are some alternatives?
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]
Native Windows GUI - A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
wxRust - A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit.
orbtk - The Rust UI-Toolkit.
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more.
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
fltk-rs - Rust bindings for the FLTK GUI library.