nfd2
OS native dialogs for Windows, MacOS, and Linux (by EmbarkStudios)
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] (by sixtyfpsui)
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| nfd2 | Slint | |
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| - | 60 | |
| 32 | 3,094 | |
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| 3.2 | 9.9 | |
| about 2 years ago | about 2 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust, C++, JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Slint
Posts with mentions or reviews of Slint.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-17.
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Slint VS slint - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 17 Oct 2023
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Will Qt support the Rust language by default? (just curiosity)
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.
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BeeWare – write Python, run as native everywhere
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.
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What are the best GUI libraries for a potentially “serious”/large project?
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.
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Is there a reliable and documented GUI library out there?
People have been recommending https://sixtyfps.io/ to me.
- Images in sixtyfps
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Is it worth writing a GUI toolkit in Rust?
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
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Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
People are doing that too. https://sixtyfps.io/ is basically a Qt clone in Rust, actually developed by previous Qt developers.
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I'm giving out microgrants to open source projects for the third year in a row! Brag about your projects here so I can see them, big or small!
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.
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Why I choose Electron even when I wanted to use QT
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nfd2 and Slint you can also consider the following projects:
Native Windows GUI - A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
ncurses-rs - A low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
autopy - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Python and Rust.
DearPyGui - Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
nfd-rs - OS-native file dialogs on Linux, OS X and Windows
FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
gtk4-rs - Rust bindings of GTK 4