nannou VS rust-skia

Another idea would be to do something with Nannou, it's pretty straightforward to get some visually pleasing results and I find these Processing/P5 inspired creative coding libraries allow for a lot of exploration and expression. The Coding Train is a YouTube channel which has dozens of these kinds of projects, translating them into Rust certainly is good exercise.

Assuming you’re talking about https://nannou.cc they advertise a slack, a matrix, and a github org.

Never used this, no idea If it's what you want, but maybe https://nannou.cc/?

https://nannou.cc/ may be worth checking out.

"creative coding" usually refers to a framework where a developer/artist can code up nice things quickly

for example https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/blob/master/examples/dr...

I've exported individual frames using this mechanism, I've never tried gif encoding before but seems like there's support for it,

The only example that shedded some light on the integration was gtk4 + femtovg. So I mimicked the example, using gtk4-rs and Skia's rust bindings. I had some code similar to the following inside a subclass of GLArea to setup Skia's DirectContext, but it failed:

Checkout rust-skia.

Skia (https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia) which I think does a mix of software and gpu rendering

I‘d probably look into Skia first, it also drives Flutter. https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia

I have been looking around for a suitable vector graphics library to use. My short list is: skia-safe, skulpin, nannou, and cairo.

Flutter uses skia which implements a common API for all these GPU rendering backends. Maybe rust-skia is a good fit for your needs, but be prepared to lose lot of the time you saved by using a single codebase into coding your common UI framework :P