Is it worth writing a GUI toolkit in Rust?

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  • cxx

    Safe interop between Rust and C++

  • Sorry, I cant really give too much advice here. You may be interested in the cxx library for automatic binding generation between rust <-> c++ here

  • Slint

    Discontinued 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]

  • There is already a project to make a Qt like GUI toolkit in Rust: https://sixtyfps.io/ It is really similar to Qt https://sixtyfps.io/releases/0.1.5/docs/rust/sixtyfps/index.html

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    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.

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  • snui

  • accesskit

    UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages

  • Fortunately, it seems like new GUI toolkits will have an easier time of integrating with accessibility APIs in the near future thanks to AccessKit. It's Windows-only for now, but support for other platforms is planned.

  • dioxus

    Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

  • Might be worth writing a renderer for Dixous which was just released? https://dioxuslabs.com

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