Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?

• yew

  89 27,570 8.2 Rust

  Rust / Wasm framework for building client web apps

  

  I disagree with the premise. Building a UI in Rust is fairly straightforward! Just look at Yew, Dioxus, or Slint and how they manage interfaces. I believe the core of the issue at hand is the same of mass adoption of Rust: people have to learn a new way of doing things, and that makes it somewhat scary to approach.

• slint

  77 8,203 0.0 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for applications that are written in Rust, C++, or JavaScript.

  

  I disagree with the premise. Building a UI in Rust is fairly straightforward! Just look at Yew, Dioxus, or Slint and how they manage interfaces. I believe the core of the issue at hand is the same of mass adoption of Rust: people have to learn a new way of doing things, and that makes it somewhat scary to approach.

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• dioxus

  84 9,218 8.6 Rust

  React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, TUI, and more.

  

  I disagree with the premise. Building a UI in Rust is fairly straightforward! Just look at Yew, Dioxus, or Slint and how they manage interfaces. I believe the core of the issue at hand is the same of mass adoption of Rust: people have to learn a new way of doing things, and that makes it somewhat scary to approach.

• winsafe

  12 279 5.0 Rust

  Windows API and GUI in safe, idiomatic Rust.

  WinSafe says hello.

• PacMan

  1 28 10.0 Clojure

  Pac-Man demo in Clojure (by pac1979)

  And one can go and write pacman in the same way. It is basically the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern of arranging things: The UI is the shell and the computation the core.

• egui

  101 15,096 9.5 Rust

  egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

  I have tried to use both https://docs.rs/fltk/latest/fltk/ and https://github.com/emilk/egui for my small tool https://github.com/PhilipK/BoilR .

• BoilR

  88 955 7.9 Rust

  Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library (by PhilipK)

  I have tried to use both https://docs.rs/fltk/latest/fltk/ and https://github.com/emilk/egui for my small tool https://github.com/PhilipK/BoilR .

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• taffy

  27 1,176 9.6 Rust

  A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

  

  Rust actually has a library for this (Taffy - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy). I know, because I implemented the CSS Grid support. It was a challenge, but everybody should be able to reuse that now.

• Qt

  15 1,973 0.0 C++

  Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

  

  For e.g. if you’re writing a framework, you need to interface with Cocoa on MacOS to draw windows, which only provides an Objective C or Swift interface. You can look at the Qt source code and see how they do it: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/067b53864112c084587fa9a507eb4bde3d50a6e1/src/plugins/platforms/cocoa

• EasyGUI

  1 6 10.0 APL

  Utility library for creating pages on the Chromium Embedded Framework using HTMLRenderer (by JoshDavid)

  GUI in APL in the wild

• rust-cef

  1 31 10.0 Rust

  Bindings to the Chromium Embedded Framework for Rust

  The great thing is that this also solves rust problem: just use CEF. Why didn’t the author thought about this?

• iced

  80 19,282 9.6 Rust

  A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

  

  Glow support is planned to be removed https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/1697 . Probably a good call.

• gecko-dev

  26 2,816 10.0

  Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html

  

  I checked Firefox monorepo, it has over 4x more C++ than Rust.

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