webrender
Avalonia
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9 | 254 | |
3,008 | 23,824 | |
0.7% | 1.6% | |
9.3 | 9.9 | |
2 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | C# | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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webrender
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
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.
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Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
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
- macOS Apps in Rust
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What is the best way to handle 2D graphics programming using Rust?
Surprised noone mentioned https://github.com/servo/webrender
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Learning rust as a python developer
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
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Releasing Dioxus v0.1 - a new Rust GUI toolkit for Web, Desktop, Mobile, SSR, TUI that emphasizes developer experience
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.
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Rust: Does the published crate match the upstream source?
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.
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
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
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Browser be slow
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.
Avalonia
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."
(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)
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One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.
https://avaloniaui.net/
Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.
They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.
What are some alternatives?
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
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MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
iced - Blazing fast and correct x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder for Rust, .NET, Java, Python, Lua
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono