Native Windows GUI vs rustbox

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Native Windows GUI		rustbox
	Project
12	Mentions	-
1,892	Stars	466
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Rust	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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 2023-04-22.

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
1 project | /r/ChatGPT | 27 May 2023
Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
8 projects | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023

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.
Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022

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?
1 project | /r/learnrust | 6 Mar 2022
Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2022
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2021
Good Rust System Tray Library?
1 project | /r/rust | 19 Apr 2021

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
What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
13 projects | /r/rust | 12 Apr 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.
WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
4 projects | /r/rust | 1 Apr 2021

native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
The state of gui libraries in rust?
2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jan 2021

If you only need to support Windows desktop, then let me shill my crate: native-windows-gui. It's super lightweight and it wraps pretty much all the gui stuff provided by win32. Just note that isn't really customizable look-wise.

rustbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of rustbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning rustbox yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Native Windows GUI and rustbox you can also consider the following projects:

Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion

Cursive - A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!

conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.

Azul - Desktop GUI Framework

libui-rs - Rust bindings to the minimalist, native, cross-platform UI toolkit `libui`

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

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]

imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui

QML-rust - QML (Qt Quick) bindings for Rust language

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