rust-skia VS slint

The only example that shedded some light on the integration was gtk4 + femtovg. So I mimicked the example, using gtk4-rs and Skia's rust bindings. I had some code similar to the following inside a subclass of GLArea to setup Skia's DirectContext, but it failed:

Checkout rust-skia.

Skia (https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia) which I think does a mix of software and gpu rendering

I‘d probably look into Skia first, it also drives Flutter. https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia

I have been looking around for a suitable vector graphics library to use. My short list is: skia-safe, skulpin, nannou, and cairo.

Flutter uses skia which implements a common API for all these GPU rendering backends. Maybe rust-skia is a good fit for your needs, but be prepared to lose lot of the time you saved by using a single codebase into coding your common UI framework :P

Did you get a chance to check https://slint.dev?

Disclaimer: I work for Slint

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

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...

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.

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!

Trying to do that with Slint: https://slint.dev

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.