druid
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit. (by linebender)
Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
| druid | Native Windows GUI | |
|---|---|---|
| 59 | 13 | |
| 9,682 | 2,015 | |
| 0.2% | 0.3% | |
| 5.3 | 0.0 | |
| 8 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
druid
Posts with mentions or reviews of druid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
- Druid – A data-first Rust-native UI toolkit
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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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Ergonomic APIs for hard problems (RustLab 2022 keynote)
There's a memoize View node in the previous iteration of the Xilem prototype, but it hasn't made it in to the current branch yet. That sounds like what you're asking, but it's possible I'm missing something.
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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.
Native Windows GUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of Native Windows GUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-19.
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FLTK 1.4 Released
[2] https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
- I have 0 coding experience or knowledge. I used ChatGPT to create code that would automate 80% of my work and I don't know how to deal with this newfound power
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Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs.
- Minimum effort Windows GUI choice?
- Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
- A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
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Good Rust System Tray Library?
My crate native-windows-gui supports tray application, if you only care about Windows. Example: https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui/blob/master/native-windows-gui/examples/system_tray_d.rs
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What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
Created a small resident windows program that shows a different icon depending on battery level test how easy using windows-rs and native-windows-gui is. Picked this as an easy learning project after seeing Battery Buddy for macOS.
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WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
What are some alternatives?
When comparing druid and Native Windows GUI you can also consider the following projects:
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.