wxRust
A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit. (by kenz-gelsoft)
Native Windows GUI
A light windows GUI toolkit for rust (by gabdube)
| wxRust | Native Windows GUI | |
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| 1 | 12 | |
| 133 | 1,905 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 years ago | 13 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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
Native Windows GUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of Native Windows GUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
- I have 0 coding experience or knowledge. I used ChatGPT to create code that would automate 80% of my work and I don't know how to deal with this newfound power
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Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs.
- Minimum effort Windows GUI choice?
- Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
- A light windows GUI toolkit for rust
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Good Rust System Tray Library?
My crate native-windows-gui supports tray application, if you only care about Windows. Example: https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui/blob/master/native-windows-gui/examples/system_tray_d.rs
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What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
Created a small resident windows program that shows a different icon depending on battery level test how easy using windows-rs and native-windows-gui is. Picked this as an easy learning project after seeing Battery Buddy for macOS.
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WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
native-windows-ui => https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui
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The state of gui libraries in rust?
If you only need to support Windows desktop, then let me shill my crate: native-windows-gui. It's super lightweight and it wraps pretty much all the gui stuff provided by win32. Just note that isn't really customizable look-wise.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wxRust and Native Windows GUI you can also consider the following projects:
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
gtk - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
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.
imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui
Neutrino - A GUI frontend in Rust based on web-view