Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • cargo-edit

    A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.

  • I usually employ cargo add from cargo edit (to install it: `cargo install cargo-edit), but you can add the dependency straight to Cargo.toml

  • imgui-rs

    Rust bindings for Dear ImGui

  • ImGui

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
  • relm

    Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust

  • Relm

  • libui-rs

    Rust bindings to the minimalist, native, cross-platform UI toolkit `libui` (by NoraCodes)

  • IUI

  • libui

    Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

  • Based on libui

  • areweguiyet

    A website built for the Rust community

  • areweguiyet / areweguiyet

  • vgtk

    A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and Gtk-rs

  • VGTK

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

    WorkOS logo
  • piet

    An abstraction for 2D graphics.

  • It relies on piet 2D graphic library; on Linux that means GTK/Cairo 2D primitives

  • Azul

    Desktop GUI Framework

  • Azul

  • conrod

    An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.

  • Conrod

  • orbtk

    The Rust UI-Toolkit.

  • OrbTK

  • core-foundation-rs

    Rust bindings to Core Foundation and other low level libraries on Mac OS X and iOS

  • Core-Foundation

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts