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Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#11

Post by wongarsu »

Rust certainly needs more GUI component collections. There are lots of GUI toolkits, but a comparatively small number of prebuilt components you can use with any of them.

This collection looks quite useful, though the component list is mostly indistinguishable from a list of components for a web framework. The webview component is the only one that seems somewhat specific to native applications. So for something like a file-open dialog you would still have to pull in something like rfd [1] and lose styling consistency

1: https://docs.rs/rfd/latest/rfd/

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#12

Post by baq »

agluszak wrote: post #5

I find it sad that a lot of foundational open-source software is created/maintained by trading/crypto/money laundering companies. But OTOH it's great that they at least contribute _something_ to the society!

Bitcoin ethos (as in, the original 'banks are broken, let's fix this') is kinda similar to the hacker ethos ('this thing/program is broken, let's fix this'), so maybe this shouldn't be too surprising? Short term pain for long term gain etc.

(disclaimer: I think bitcoin is dumb, but the market disagrees)

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#14

Post by nu11ptr »

airstrike wrote: post #8
nu11ptr wrote: post #2

This looks to be one of the most complete Rust UI creates (in terms of available widgets/components), but unfortunately has almost no usage (yet). I do see their docs are coming along now. Another very complete one is fyrox-ui used by the fyrox game engine: https://crates.io/crates/fyrox-ui . Again, not really used/known outside of fyrox. The Rust UI scene is maturing, but the most popular options (iced, egui, dioxus…

> The Rust UI scene is maturing, but the most popular options (iced, egui, dioxus, slint, etc.) aren't even the most complete component-wise atm as far as I can tell. I think part of the issue is that they're still changing so much as we speak. But there's real momentum here and n=1 but I've been able to build incredibly rich, enterprise-ready UI with Rust today.

> I've been able to build incredibly rich, enterprise-ready UI with Rust today.

Which UI crate did you use? The word "enterprise" caught my eye. So far I haven't found a Rust UI crate that I found rich enough, so I'm curious your experience.

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#16

Post by nu11ptr »

fidotron wrote: post #15

Is this native as in "not web" or native as in actually using native text entry and scrolling widgets? There is quite a huge difference as the Java world discovered.

Pretty sure native as in "not web". AFAIK, everything is drawn using the various GPU APIs (GPUI started with Metal on macOS, for example).

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#17

Post by jacquesm »

Oxodao wrote: post #9
kennydude wrote: post #4

Looks great for those using Rust - however I do wonder how well this works, if at all, under screen readers and other accessible tech?

my #1 question each time I see a new UI framework

"Let's get the volume first, then worry about accessibility"

That's the typical answer to these questions. Unfortunately, unless you bake it in from day #1 that's not so simple to fix afterwards.

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

#18

Post by patwoz »

wongarsu wrote: post #11

Rust certainly needs more GUI component collections. There are lots of GUI toolkits, but a comparatively small number of prebuilt components you can use with any of them. This collection looks quite useful, though the component list is mostly indistinguishable from a list of components for a web framework. The webview component is the only one that seems somewhat specific to native applications. So for something like…

You should always use the native file picker and not shipping your own. That’s a good thing.

Re: Rust cross-platform GPUI components

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Post by nicce »

baq wrote: post #12
agluszak wrote: post #5

I find it sad that a lot of foundational open-source software is created/maintained by trading/crypto/money laundering companies. But OTOH it's great that they at least contribute _something_ to the society!

Bitcoin ethos (as in, the original 'banks are broken, let's fix this') is kinda similar to the hacker ethos ('this thing/program is broken, let's fix this'), so maybe this shouldn't be too surprising? Short term pain for long term gain etc. (disclaimer: I think bitcoin is dumb, but the market disagrees)

> (disclaimer: I think bitcoin is dumb, but the market disagrees)

I believe that market is quite controversial. Most people know that bitcoin is a bit dump, but they buy it regardless because they believe they profit from it when they do that as part of larger group. A very interesting social experiment with the mix of market manipulation. It is less about stability, independence or usability of the currency, but more about the opportunity of profit.

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