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How many of those actually look and behave like native and support accessibility correctly?
10 years ago Python was famous for how many web frameworks it had. It seems Rust will be famous for the number of GUI libraries.
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Sadly? I prefer desktop Windows programs to be gdi/win32, they are often the most thought out and optimized for actual desktop paradigms (i.e mouse+keyboard+high res screen) without giant margins, padding and whitespace everywhere and makes use of proper desktop class widgets like treeviews, listviews, tabs, etc.
Exactly. Haters gonna hate me but I really liked Windows.Forms (and C#) for development line-of-business desktop apps.
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What even is "native" on Windows? Is it Win32? WinForms? WPF? UWP? WinUI? Windows App SDK? There's so many to choose from and they all look and behave differently.
These days the native GUI for Windows is Electron.
10 years ago Python was famous for how many web frameworks it had. It seems Rust will be famous for the number of GUI libraries.
1. Rust is growing in popularity, and a compelling GUI solution is needed
2. These solutions take significant time to incubate, so many of the ones we're seeing emerge have been incubating for months or years, started at a time when there were fewer options.
3. The implications for cross-platform app development with Rust are profound, and offer us a way to break free from the pain-points and shortcomings of the local maximum solutions du jour: Web + Electron and Phonegap-style WebView mobile apps.
If you want to choose a single language that can create native GUI's, Rust is probably your best or only choice. Other languages are lacking a good story for either the web or for iOS but Rust works well on both.
How many of those actually look and behave like native and support accessibility correctly?
What even is "native" on Windows? Is it Win32? WinForms? WPF? UWP? WinUI? Windows App SDK? There's so many to choose from and they all look and behave differently.
UWP is deprecated, althought it keeps being the one mostly used on Windows 11, as WinUI still isn't up to its game and keeps collecting issues across all their repos.
Windows App SDK is not a GUI framework, rather the new marketing name for Project Reunion, the porting of UWP runtime infrastructure on top of standard COM without sandoxing and application identity.
Shout out to Dioxus. It's a react clone that provides a really nice experience and can run a web GUI faster than React can. That's quite the accomplishment given the disadvantage of having to use shims to access the DOM. If you want to choose a single language that can create native GUI's, Rust is probably your best or only choice. Other languages are lacking a good story for either the web or for iOS but Rust works…
Sadly Rust for WinUI3/UWP/XAML for Windows GUI - actually modern UIs on Windows - was abandoned or explicitly removed from Rust API bindings by MS. The listed library only uses the ancient win32 api
If a person wants a native gui I guess QT would be worth investigating as well (unless one is concerned by the license).