Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs

1. slint

   1 147 18,911 10.0 Rust

   Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.

   

   There's a work-in-progress branch to embed a GStreamer video feed into a Slint window: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/tree/simon/gstreamer

2. CodeRabbit

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3. psst

   2 44 9,033 7.9 Rust

   Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

   

   Not that I'm in any way suggesting that you have to have to pursue this, but I'd suggest that not having this as a goal is why it hasn't happened. I've seen apps built with Druid (like https://github.com/jpochyla/psst) and they look great. But when I looked into the documentation, I was really struggling to get started. In contrast, libraries like Iced are quite limited in what they can do and are not as architecturally sound as Druid, but seem to have put more effort into the onboarding experience and documentation for beginners (see also: the effort that Rust itself puts into being beginner friendly, and how that has enabled it jump into the mainstream where other similar languages have remained niche).

4. druid

   3 59 9,667 5.3 Rust

   A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit. (by linebender)

   

   I think it's in Druid repo, but different branches, such as: https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/idiopath

5. lapce

   4 182 35,172 9.2 Rust

   Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

   

   Druid is interesting as a research project. But seeing that Lapce uses its own forks of druid and xi-rope/xi-editor and the last release of Druid is from January 202 it still changes too much to be able to use it. I think the biggest obstacle to more popularity is that it never managed to stabilize its API.

6. dioxus

   5 170 27,050 9.8 Rust

   Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

   

   yoo check out Dioxus :)

7. bevy

   6 594 39,222 10.0 Rust

   A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

   

   Thanks for the kind words <3 I'm one of the maintainers of both bevy and taffy (our upstream layouting library)!

8. taffy

   7 38 2,431 9.0 Rust

   A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

   

   Thanks for the kind words <3 I'm one of the maintainers of both bevy and taffy (our upstream layouting library)!

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. rkyv

    8 13 3,227 8.9 Rust

    Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust

    

    Any chance of working with zero-copy deserialization frameworks? like https://github.com/rkyv/rkyv or capnproto

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