loadtxt VS Slint

It really depends on what part of Numpy you're using. You can easily leave Numpy's text parsing in the dust. And if you're doing element-wise operations on arrays, you can easily see 2-3x improvement with just numba.

Amdahl's Law will catch up with you really fast as you add threads with this strategy, but it's simple and is amenable to formats where you may have a delimiter in the middle of a record. For situations where you need maximum scaling and don't have the possibility of delimiters scattered into records, you can use the strategy I used to implement a faster numpy.loadtxt: https://github.com/saethlin/loadtxt/blob/master/src/inner.rs#L84 The general idea is that you divide the file among thread boundaries by splitting it on byte boundaries, then seeking from that byte offset to the end of the next record. This gets you non-interleaved sections so there's no duplicate parsing.

As an anecdote, the three top contributors to sixtyfps are ex-Qt people. I think it is not anecdotal that there is at least some degree of overlap and competition between Rust and C++, and that this is a market that surely The Qt Company is watching.

SixtyFPS (https://sixtyfps.io/) is in progress for Rust, but it is still early days. It also does not technically use a native toolkit (it uses Qt), but I believe that might be on roadmap. For traditional GUI apps, I think the lack of a table or tree widget is the most limiting for the time being. They have stated they intend to remedy that.

The most promising GUI hasn't been posted here, SixtyFPS. It's in it's early stages and not FOSS, but it's built by some ex-QT cats and has a lot of potential.

People have been recommending https://sixtyfps.io/ to me.

There is already a project to make a Qt like GUI toolkit in Rust: https://sixtyfps.io/ It is really similar to Qt https://sixtyfps.io/releases/0.1.5/docs/rust/sixtyfps/index.html

People are doing that too. https://sixtyfps.io/ is basically a Qt clone in Rust, actually developed by previous Qt developers.

spdlog, a pretty useful and more and more commonly used logging library for C++.\ SixtyFPS, an emerging GUI library for Rust, but you can use it in multiple languages. It uses OpenGL or Qt currently as backend (well, it's a new library and they wanted two from the get-go to make sure their abstractions are done right/well enough). They started a company this year for it too.

Just so some are not aware, there's a new project called sixtyfps by some people who were in the Qt world for long. I didn't take a deep dive into it but it looks promising.