Worried about “modern” Rust GUI libraries

• Visual Studio Code

  2,840 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

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For dynamic documents CSS becomes a disaster: visial effect described in two lines of CSS may require billions of instructions to render it. Because there are no limitations for how big of a change any tiny CSS manipulation may cause. This leads to crazy cases like when a blinking cursor takes 13% of CPU time.

• sycamore

  70 2,665 7.4 Rust

  A library for creating reactive web apps in Rust and WebAssembly

  

There are other libraries like sycamore and leptos that don't do diffing and instead precisely track which parts of the UI needs to be updated using reactive programming.

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• iced

  165 22,767 9.9 Rust

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

  

For iced, it looks like they are working on the necessary changes to implement incremental updates (RFC here, mentioned in this issue)

• yet-another-bevy-project

  1 4 10.0

  Template for a Bevy game including CI/CD and releases for web, Windows, Linux, and macOS

Over in Bevy game dev world, this person is trying to apply the NgRx architecture to their UI & ECS packages.

• perseus

  27 2,108 7.6 Rust

  A state-driven web development framework for Rust with full support for server-side rendering and static generation.

  

• slint

  138 15,020 9.9 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  

Slint [https://slint-ui.com] is a modern Rust GUI library. It is not a Web library, and is taking performances seriously. Slint can scale down to embedded devices with less than 300kB of RAM (yes, kB, not MB). To get a decent refresh rate when something changes it does not rebuilt the whole UI every frame, but carefully track changes and only redraw the region of the screen that have changed.

• dioxus

  155 18,291 9.9 Rust

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

  

Well, Dioxus (https://dioxuslabs.com/) seems like it feeds the exact same DOM to a Webview, via Tauri. I don't see why all of them couldn't do the exact same, as long as you're okay with the Electron/Tauri level of "nativeness".

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