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web-view
- GUI libraries unrelated to GTK and QT
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Rust Webkit2GTK Ping Pong Example
I want get a pong back from the app process, but I cant figure out how. I do aware of Boscop Webview and webview_official, but I want to work with Webkit2GTK to have more controls. I really appreciate your kind help.
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Any stable crate to develop a cross-platform Rust desktop app?
I prefer Boscop/web-view since it's much less effort to get up and running for use with developing an application written in Rust.
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Rustpad: Collaborative text editing app using Tokio + Warp
Given that this can be self-hosted, any thoughts on making a desktop app with https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Electron substitute in rust?
I haven't used it, but some others have recommended webview in the past: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Making really personalised UI interfaces
As an alternative you can wrap this html ui using web-view or tauri. This would be like a lightweight alternative to electron.
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Tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
That would be https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
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Rust GUI like Python's Tkinter
There's also the option of using something like webview, with webasm and a framework like yew it makes for relatively light and easy to implement GUIs, without having to write any javascript.
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Efficient custom shapes in QtQuick with Rust
[1] https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
Ultralight
- Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
[2] https://ultralig.ht/
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
Web rendering would be Blink, with V8 being the JavaScript engine. I believe they have their own UI rendering process.
I know of another company that does something similar for the UI process, but with WebKit instead as the base:
https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight#rocket-dual-high...
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Ode to the M1
What I'd really like to see with CEF et al, is JS being dropped, in favor of directly controlling the DOM from the host language. Then we could, for example, write a Rust (or Kotlin, Zig, Haskell, etc) desktop application that simply directly manipulated the DOM, and had it rendered by a HTML+CSS layout engine. Folks could then write a React-like framework for that language (to help render & re-render the DOM in an elegant way).
Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems to have a decent bit of activity). It would be great if some group of devs could revive the project, or a company could fund such a revival.
Eventually, we'll need to reflect on, and explore whether HTML+CSS is really the best way to do layout, and we could maybe perhaps consider proting the Android/iOS layout approach over to desktop.
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Anselm's Jazz Distributed Infrastructure Framework
I'm curious if the project will be open-source or do you have plans to go the Awesomium/Ultralight route with both open/closed sources and volume licenses? Or do you plan to offer commercial support services like other open source software?
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Best cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) desktop frameworks?
I’m not tied to any language, but it needs to be able to wrap a c++ library. I started with .NET 7 MAUI - no linux support & very mobile focused. Tried out Electron. Wins on ease and usability, but has massive overhead. (Basic “Hello world” executable compiled to over 200mb) I then discovered Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/). Big win on size, but was last updated 3 years ago.
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Remember when this was 0% and 70 mb? This is comical.
tauri exists or if you wanted to ultralig.ht
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
I agree web stuff is really the best way to develop UIs. Good luck making responsive stuff in C++ for example. The paradigm of HTML, CSS, and JS is extremely powerful and even allows you to use canvas, webgpu, wasm.
There are multiple commercial projects that use web dev paradigm for GUIs:
https://coherent-labs.com/
https://ultralig.ht/
https://sciter.com/
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what do you think about alternative browser engines?
Nice review, thanks! There are also: Ultralight (based on Webkit), LiteHTML, Tkhtml3 and Lobo Evolution. See also timeline of web engines.
What are some alternatives?
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
webkit2gtk-rs - [UNMAINTAINED] WebKit2 bindings and wrappers for Rust
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
qt-ultralight-browser - Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
orbtk - The Rust UI-Toolkit.
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
webview_rust - [wip] Rust Bindings to webview
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine