A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework

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  • PhysicsExamples2D

    Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.

    • [3]: https://unity.com/

  • Uno Platform

    Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

    • [2]: https://platform.uno/

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  • Avalonia

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

    • My understanding is that most of the new generation of GUI frameworks/application runtime are targeting all platforms. And there's clearly a demand for such feature set if the popularity of Electron says anything. Software businesses no longer want to specialize on specific platforms. What's more, it's provably[0] doable[1] to[2] do[3] so[4]. So, why shouldn't they?

        [0]: https://avaloniaui.net/

  • async_ui

    Lifetime-Friendly, Component-Based, Retained-Mode UI Powered by Async Rust

    • I'm very interested in seeing if using the commonly implemented forms of compiler support for async programming can also be well used for GUI programming. One wishawa[0] is also perusing this approach in Rust but I first came upon this idea from the crank-js[1] authors. It wasn't clear to me why that one never went anywhere. Was it failure with the approach or was React just a good solution in the space? I can say this though, there's something strikingly elegant about those initial samples of using JavaScript generators for components.

    [0]: https://github.com/wishawa/async_ui

    [1]: https://github.com/bikeshaving/crank

  • crank

    The Just JavaScript Framework

    • I'm very interested in seeing if using the commonly implemented forms of compiler support for async programming can also be well used for GUI programming. One wishawa[0] is also perusing this approach in Rust but I first came upon this idea from the crank-js[1] authors. It wasn't clear to me why that one never went anywhere. Was it failure with the approach or was React just a good solution in the space? I can say this though, there's something strikingly elegant about those initial samples of using JavaScript generators for components.

    [0]: https://github.com/wishawa/async_ui

    [1]: https://github.com/bikeshaving/crank

  • glicol

    Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

    • > The problem in the Rust ecosystem is that people are writing libraries instead of applications.

    I totally second this.

    Got the same feeling after developing https://glicol.org/

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