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You wonder based on what? Static will put something in the binary itself and it will be memory mapped in, which won't even need to be directly allocated.
The apostrophe isn’t superfluous. ‘Static in this context refers to static lifetime. Lifetimes have absolutely 0 impact on runtime.
AFAIK, for better or worse, this is the only UI crate (other than HTML-like UI using something like Tauri) that provides a full set of widgets/capabilities on Rust. Every other UI lib is incomplete in some way or falls short for anything other than a toy or specialty type app in my experience. UPDATE: Things I have my eye on as they mature: Slint, egui, and iced. I'm especially watching iced as Pop_os is using it for…
I think egui is complete enough to use in real apps. Layout can be a bit weird, but I haven't found anything that's impossible. I might even prefer it for cross-platform apps since startup time is so slow for GTK on Windows.
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You wonder based on what? Static will put something in the binary itself and it will be memory mapped in, which won't even need to be directly allocated.
The apostrophe isn’t superfluous. ‘Static in this context refers to static lifetime. Lifetimes have absolutely 0 impact on runtime.
Rust GTK4 "hello world" app, as a downloadable project, demonstrating the builder pattern: https://github.com/SixArm/rust-guideposts/blob/main/projects...
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The challenge with egui is the theme. It looks ok, but isn't good enough for a commercial business app for example. Also, I believe it lacks a webview, so if you are in a pinch the only thing you can do is create your own widgets without a way to cheat and embed some web content. I would agree for certain types of apps it may be "good enough" (science, gaming, medical perhaps...anything where the UI is secondary to t…
Native look and feel is vastly overrated imo. Delphi and before it borland builder made for great UIs despite not looking native. To the point that when I came across that widget set, I knew I was in for a good UX. Still many bespoke interfaces, like at a brakes repair or small lumber yard chain use delphi and it works just fine. As for the webview, thats a thing, but if you will have web access, you can target wasm,…
UPDATE: True, it is themable, I just wish the default was a little more polished
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Native look and feel is vastly overrated imo. Delphi and before it borland builder made for great UIs despite not looking native. To the point that when I came across that widget set, I knew I was in for a good UX. Still many bespoke interfaces, like at a brakes repair or small lumber yard chain use delphi and it works just fine. As for the webview, thats a thing, but if you will have web access, you can target wasm,…
I mean no offense to the egui people because they have done amazing work, but it isn't that it isn't native, it is that it doesn't look good enough to ship something with it (other than a science/medical/gaming UI perhaps, but certainly not a business app). Gtk won't look native either on anything but Linux...at all, but at least is very professional looking in its default theme. Obviously what looks "good enough" is…
Note: I did have to implement some missing features for my purpose, so when I say “fully” I mean I had to spend a couple hours putting the features I wanted together. But in the end, it was a great result. Maybe this work should be turned into a PR, I dunno.
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I would add the following to your list: - Vizia https://github.com/vizia/vizia - Freya https://github.com/marc2332/freya - Xilem https://github.com/linebender/xilem - Floem https://github.com/lapce/floem
I'm aware of those, but I don't consider those UI crates in the same way as gtk-rs. The best analogy I can come up with is I don't consider react or vue-js UI libraries either, but low level libraries that can be used to build a UI lib. I consider Material UI (which uses react) to be a UI lib, for example. In the same way, AFAIK these crates are much more concerned with inventing the best UI paradigm than they are at…
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The challenge with egui is the theme. It looks ok, but isn't good enough for a commercial business app for example. Also, I believe it lacks a webview, so if you are in a pinch the only thing you can do is create your own widgets without a way to cheat and embed some web content. I would agree for certain types of apps it may be "good enough" (science, gaming, medical perhaps...anything where the UI is secondary to t…
Native look and feel is vastly overrated imo. Delphi and before it borland builder made for great UIs despite not looking native. To the point that when I came across that widget set, I knew I was in for a good UX. Still many bespoke interfaces, like at a brakes repair or small lumber yard chain use delphi and it works just fine. As for the webview, thats a thing, but if you will have web access, you can target wasm,…
At this rate programming languages will reinvent GUI builders from Delphi/Lazarus in 2050