rust-anthology VS vgtk

Compare rust-anthology vs vgtk and see what are their differences.

vgtk

A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and Gtk-rs (by bodil)
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rust-anthology vgtk
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1,425 1,038
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2.2 0.0
3 months ago about 2 years ago
Shell Rust
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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rust-anthology

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-anthology. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.

vgtk

Posts with mentions or reviews of vgtk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-14.
  • Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022
    A pretty fun Rust GUI experienc is vgtk[0], which is doing a bunch of macro magic to give a "we're coding in React" vibe to GTK+. I don't really have a specific thing I want to code in a native GUI at the moment but if I did I think this would be the most tempting for me.

    [0]: https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/

  • Code bloat has become astronomical
    2 projects | /r/programming | 26 Sep 2022
    a stateful GUI markup language is react. it is not yet the case that react-like code works for desktop, though there are cool examples like vgtk https://github.com/bodil/vgtk
  • Vgtk - A declarative desktop ui framework for rust built on gtk and gtk-rs
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 19 Jun 2022
  • A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rs
    2 projects | /r/programming | 6 Jun 2022
    from what i gather from https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/issues/78, you're better off using realm
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 28 May 2022
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 28 May 2022
    1 project | /r/Boiling_Steam | 28 May 2022
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2022
    I'm always curious to see these projects, because I've been experimenting with a React renderer for the GJS bindings for a while. It's frustrating because GTK "feels like" it's so close to being able to support a vdom/declarative paradigm, but the devil is in the details.

    The simple use-cases like "Window > Box > Label" are easy to get going. The more complex widgets like Stack/Grid/TreeView ... aren't.

    This project seems to have the same issue: https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/issues/40

    This is made more difficult now GTK4 has removed the Container base class, so there's no longer a unified interface for adding children (although it had caveats in the first place).

    I totally get the GTK view that (presumably) specific widgets are more intuitive with specific add/remove APIs (like the grid - one doesn't really "appendChild" to a grid).

    It just feels like: if there was a consistent container API comparable to the web's appendChild approach, a vdom/declarative approach would require only a very light wrapper. Without it, I keep coming back to the idea of implementing wrapper widgets that expose that consistent API instead. And that's just not something I want to maintain - effectively duplicating each GTK widget for the purpose of making it fit into a tree model.

    It's also a problem of trying to wrap richer functionality (pack_start and pack_end) into a simpler set (append only) of course.

    So I don't know exactly what my point is :) Perhaps cautioning the reader that the simplicity of the approach comes with a catch.

  • Hacker News top posts: May 28, 2022
    5 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 28 May 2022
    A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rs\ (23 comments)
  • Newbie here. Just finished reading the book. What now?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 12 Jan 2022
    Build your own To-do List Application in Rust: https://bodil.lol/vgtk/

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