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piet
- Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends
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A simple 2d graphic library
You can even check https://github.com/linebender/piet and https://github.com/RazrFalcon/tiny-skia. They are pure rust libraries. Skia as a whole is a big binary to add.
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Druid, a Rust-native UI toolkit, released v0.8 after two years of work by 80 contributors.
First, at the deepest level, we are moving away from Piet, which is a cross-platform 2D graphics abstraction. Under the hood it uses whatever the standard OS API is. Instead we will be using Vello which we have been building as a research project for years already. It is starting to near its v0.1, which is very exciting. Fundamentally it is a novel GPU accelerated 2D rendering engine with a strong focus on performance. It is not ready for benchmarks yet, but we're confident it will deliver. If you're curious, you can check out the Vello roadmap for 2023.
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What 2D graphics library would you most recommend?
you can use piet, although that is more of an abstraction over existing, platform-dependent libraries. So not really pure rust, but definitely cross-platform.
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Piet-GPU Progress: Clipping
Piet is the backend for the Druid UI framework. It is indeed cross-platform. The SVG backend looks like it would work without an OS, but I'm not sure the value of a GUI toolkit without an OS anyway :)
https://github.com/linebender/piet#backends
https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/master/druid-shell/...
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Looking for an image manipulation library that can add text to images. (and has documentation for it)
Piet can render text. You can use Piet_common with the BitMapTarget to generate images Here is an example.
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Simple graphics library using software rendering?
Piet (https://github.com/linebender/piet) should work.
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What Graphics Library to use?
So the 3 I'm looking at right now are 1. druid 1. piet 1. bevy
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Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021)
It relies on piet 2D graphic library; on Linux that means GTK/Cairo 2D primitives
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Patrick Walton heading up Facebook's Rust team
You may be interested in taking a look at piet!
Azul
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Not sure what you mean but WebRender powers Firefox which definitely works on the desktop.
You can use it to build desktop UI frameworks - see for example https://azul.rs/
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Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
I'd been wanting to see this, preferably with JS being optional, and just allowing direct DOM access.
I initially thought this was what Azul was, but it's only just using Servo's WebRender compositor, and rolls its own CSS parser, DOM, and layout engine, so it doesn't benefit from most of the work done on Servo, and supports less CSS features.
https://github.com/fschutt/azul
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Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
Both Servo and Fifefox make use of webrender, which is an awesome piece of tech and is well suited to render a web page. Some GUI projects attempted to use webrender directly as well, like Azul and moxie-native
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
> But no one is saying, "Hey I have a CSS 2.1 compliant rasterizer and compositor that you can use in your C++ or Rust environment!" are they?
There’s actually quite a lot of interesting work going on in that general space, has been in various forms for some years. A couple that immediately spring to mind:
• Azul <https://azul.rs/> builds on WebRender, as used in Firefox. I haven’t looked at it for a few years, but it looks to have grown quite interesting now.
• Blitz <https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz> is based on from-scratch implementations of CSS layout and rendering, and wgpu rendering. It’s not usable yet, but is a very interesting concept. If one happens to be familiar with React Native: it’s kinda like that, or React Native Web.
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XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox
Azul[1] was my solution for that, it was based on WebRender. I didn't get around to finish it in 2019, but I will work on it this year, maybe I'll get it to be mature enough to post it here.
> wide portability (at least Windoze, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, embedded: Azul is Windows-Linux-Mac only, don't underestimate the effort to properly port something to a new platform
> "though a Vulkan-based renderer can be made to run pretty much anywhere": WebRender is OpenGL + using software rendering as a fallback
> a permissive open source license: MPL-2.0
> a C interface/wrap to allow a wide programming language binding support: yes
> and an easily extensible and themable set of basic widgets: also yes
[1] https://azul.rs/
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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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Servo 2023 Roadmap
Sounds like you may be interested in azul not exactly servo based but on projects that originate from servo. Also this is not a typical WebView, for example it does not use HTML but uses DOM to define it's UI, and there is no JS engine in there.
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Help with webrender.
Azul uses webrender. But your "glue" program is like half the web browser. You also need a vector graphics library to render websites. Webrender only does boxes, but not complex SVG paths. Once the plan was to use pathfinder, but mozilla fired the dev and they still using an old version of chromium's skia for that.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
One day I'll get around to finish my library Azul [1]. Hopefully.
[1] https://azul.rs/
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Pure Rust GUI Landscape
azul
What are some alternatives?
embedded-graphics - A no_std graphics library for embedded applications
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.
areweguiyet - A website built for the Rust community
wxRust - A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
orbtk - The Rust UI-Toolkit.
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Native Windows GUI - A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
vgtk - A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and Gtk-rs
relm - Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust