wxRust
A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit. (by kenz-gelsoft)
druid
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit. (by linebender)
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| wxRust | druid | |
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| 1 | 59 | |
| 133 | 9,328 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.0 | |
| about 2 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wxRust
Posts with mentions or reviews of wxRust.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-30.
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Rust GUI Development?
It looks like someone attempted creating Rust bindings for wxWidgets years ago but abandoned the project, likewise this is not an option : wxRust
druid
Posts with mentions or reviews of druid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
- Druid – A data-first Rust-native UI toolkit
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What can rust do
For GUI applications, the story is mixed. There are several GUI frameworks in active development, but nothing as polished and battle-tested as Electron for TypeScript. There are bindings to GTK, but they're cumbersome to work with, and I wouldn't recommend it to a Rust newbie. There's also Tauri, which is a bit like Electron and lets you write the GUI in HTML/CSS/JS and the business logic in Rust.
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Do Rust and Lua work well together?
Concerning GUI frameworks, the most common ones are druid, egui and iced. All three of them run native and on the Web.
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What was the hardest coming from C++ to Rust?
Going to give a shoutout to druid. I've recently tried it with the Lapce editor and it's just so smooth, fast and works so well for a pre-alpha app.
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What GUI libs are out there and good to use?
As iced and egui were difficult for me, i started with druid.
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Rust GUI framework
There is Iced which is used by system76 in Pop!_OS, Druid [DISCONTINUED], GTK-rs, Relm, Azul and Tauri. Personally I would use Tauri for its speed using the OS's native web render, documentation of use with things such as Sveltekit and the ability to make UI's using JS, CSS and HTML. Tauri similarly to Electron whilst being far faster. But its up to personal preference really. There aren't any solid "go to" options at the moment.
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What do people use for simple UI projects?
Druid should be good for most cases, it has a lot of built-in widget for the UI, you can even make a custom widget with a canvas-alike painting API.
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Druid, a Rust-native UI toolkit, released v0.8 after two years of work by 80 contributors.
Druid, which is a Rust-native UI toolkit for building desktop applications targeting Windows/macOS/Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD, has a new version out - v0.8.
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Ergonomic APIs for hard problems (RustLab 2022 keynote)
There's a memoize View node in the previous iteration of the Xilem prototype, but it hasn't made it in to the current branch yet. That sounds like what you're asking, but it's possible I'm missing something.
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Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
You can use GTK from Rust. But the Rust native ones aren't really there yet. [Iced](https://github.com/iced-rs/iced) which has been picked up by System76 and [Druid](https://github.com/linebender/druid) (and it's next gen version [Xilem](https://github.com/linebender/xilem)) are the ones to watch, along with Dioxus which is the main post here.
I'd expect there to be something useable by the end of 2023.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wxRust and druid you can also consider the following projects:
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
relm - Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.
Neutrino - A GUI frontend in Rust based on web-view
QMetaObject crate for Rust - Integrate Qml and Rust by building the QMetaObject at compile time.
Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]