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A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

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Re: A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

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Post by dxxvi »

Wow, the author seems to have a lot of knowledge of what he's talking about. I know almost nothing about writing desktop apps and only a bit of Rust. So, I guess that if we need to choose a Rust gui library, we'll go with something that has "Yes" in all columns?

Re: A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

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Post by znpy »

vardump wrote: post #2

http://web.archive.org/web/20250414144348/https://www.boring... To get around apparent vandalism…

it's no vandalism, it's done on purpose:

https://www.boringcactus.com/assets/site.js

    //     Never read Hacker News
    // - Aphyr, "Hexing the technical interview"
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this also mean that copying the link and pasting it in the address bar will get you no fart sound

childish behavior if you ask me

Re: A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

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Post by rc00 »

dxxvi wrote: post #3

Wow, the author seems to have a lot of knowledge of what he's talking about. I know almost nothing about writing desktop apps and only a bit of Rust. So, I guess that if we need to choose a Rust gui library, we'll go with something that has "Yes" in all columns?

Or don't use Rust. There are better and more supported options if you don't try to force a language where it clearly doesn't belong.

Re: A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

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Post by tcfhgj »

rc00 wrote: post #6
dxxvi wrote: post #3

Wow, the author seems to have a lot of knowledge of what he's talking about. I know almost nothing about writing desktop apps and only a bit of Rust. So, I guess that if we need to choose a Rust gui library, we'll go with something that has "Yes" in all columns?

Or don't use Rust. There are better and more supported options if you don't try to force a language where it clearly doesn't belong.

Why would you say that?
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