swift-bridge VS webrender

A bit late, but `swift-bridge` (https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge) does this intelligently, and is probably what you're looking for.

4) Another route that I tried is to develop a simple terminal app using SwiftUI with a Xcode project to build that app + link against a Rust library compiled for iOS with the actual logic. I used swift-bridge for this and it works really well, to the point where I have a custom logger that you can simply use the print stuff to SwiftUI from Rust using the log crate. Once I have a bit more time, I will probably try figuring out how to clean this up a bit more.

Since Swift is your first target, I might recommend swift-bridge which can generate bindings for Rust async fns that Swift can call directly.

I'm working on getting my GUI crate (https://github.com/audulus/rui) working on iOS (https://github.com/audulus/rui-ios). Multitouch will be fun. Shout out to the excellent work in swift-bridge: https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge.

So that class SwiftString was actually unused. I've removed it here https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge/pull/33 .

Here's an example of a Rust library that exposes an async function that uses reqwest to make an API call, and a main.swift that calls that async function.

Have you tried Swift Bridge? https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge

This source code:

https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast...

suggests to me that the glyph rasterization (which is the CPU-limiting factor for text rendering) in WebRender (which is the new FF 93+ GPU-accelerated rendering engine) is implemented in Rust and to be run on CPU.

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

Surprised noone mentioned https://github.com/servo/webrender

Firefox article outlining which parts use Rust https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Within_Firefox Servo/WebRender, the 2d renderer used by firefox: https://github.com/servo/webrender

Hi, what do you think about using webrender instead of wry on desktop? That is, instead of a full featured browser, just the bare minimum to render the DOM.

This is in the context of rust.

> it adds a line to a `go.sum` while with a hash of the code at the version specified

Cargo.lock also contains a checksum

> You can distribute your code without a copy of the dependency

Also true in rust, and the default way of using rust.

> If the hashes are different, an error is thrown.

Also true in rust.

For an example of what this looks like: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/54b725be37f13b166946...

You haven't described anything different between go and rust in your comment since every feature you've pointed out applies equally to both.

Yes! This is because web browsers use the platform text input stack

Browsers are a great example of cross-platform UI, because they sprinkle platform-native widgets throughout the canvas that they render. Which reminds me that people were trying to use webrender[1] to build native apps in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/servo/webrender

What more can be done, besides site isolation and ASLR+DEP? Oh wait, Mozilla rewrote the damn renderer in a better language than C(++), that seems like a good way to prevent issues.