qwindowkit
slint
qwindowkit | slint | |
---|---|---|
2 | 138 | |
325 | 15,289 | |
20.9% | 3.4% | |
9.5 | 9.9 | |
6 days ago | about 10 hours ago | |
C++ | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 Or Slint Royalty-Free |
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.
qwindowkit
- How might software development have unfolded if CPU speeds were 20x slower?
-
9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
You can use Rust with QML[1].
QML is actually pretty amazing. I've been building my block editor[2] view entirely in QML while the model is in C++. This separation of logic and presentation works great. And yes, there are some crashes sometimes (that I find quite easy to debug thanks to the built-in debugger), but take for example a similar app that's built with Rust and Dart[3], in my testing there were still memory leaks that caused my computer to hang. It's better to know you have a bug than for it to be hidden from you.
I agree with parent commenter, saying these cross-platform frameworks will end up supporting the least common denominator set of features. But I found with external open source libraries, the community is catching up very fast. For example, you want the awesome translucency macOS apps have for your Qt app? Here you go[4]. Many such cases. It's also pretty straightforward to add your own custom OS-dependent code, especially so, if someone already open sourced his approach. I recently wanted to move the traffic light buttons on macOS for my app, but couldn't figure the Objective-C code for that. I ended up looking at either Tauri or Electron source code and found my answer.
[1] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs
[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
[3] https://www.appflowy.io/
[4] https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit
slint
-
Ask HN: Why would you ever use C++ for a new project over Rust?
Did you get a chance to check https://slint.dev?
Disclaimer: I work for Slint
-
Deno in 2023
Currently, we do it by using binaries through napi-rs so we can bring in a window using the platform native API. And then we do some hack to merge the event loops.
But if Deno supports bringing up a window directly, this means we can just ship wasm instead of native binary for all platform. And also I hope event loop integration will be simplified.
Although we'd also need more API than just showing a window (mouse and keyboard input, accessibility, popup window, system tray, ...)
[1] https://slint.dev
-
Slint GUI Toolkit
Rich Text content is not yet implemented. This is tracked in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/2723
Thanks for reporting the broken link. Fixed in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/commit/9200480b532f49007d2...
-
slint VS rinf - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 24 Jan 2024
-
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
With Slint (https://slint.dev) we're trying to make a lightweight toolkit that doesn't use HTML/CSS. And that you can program either from low level languages such as C++ or Rust. As well as with higher level language such as JavaScript, and we want to extend to python too.
-
Immediate Mode GUI Programming
I haven't. I was just searching for a GUI library that was Bevy-compatible and slint isn't at the moment: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/discussions/940
Sorry!
-
Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed
Trying to do that with Slint: https://slint.dev
- 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
-
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1
You can do that with Slint (https://slint.dev) and its linuxkms backend. No need for a xorg server or wayland compositor, just run the application made with Slint from the init script.
- Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
What are some alternatives?
framelesshelper - Project moved to: https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit Cross-platform window customization framework for Qt Widgets and Qt Quick. Supports Windows, Linux and macOS.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
klogg - Really fast log explorer based on glogg project
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
AppFlowy - AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
lvgl - Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
cxx-qt - Safe interop between Rust and Qt
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
fltk-rs - Rust bindings for the FLTK GUI library.