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I think Rust may be a bit too low level for that but at least you will be in the HN frontpage with that combination for sure!

• xfer 9y ago
  How is rust too low level for a desktop app? All the native ui toolkits are in C/C++ ...
  • StavrosK 9y ago
    Is there any good/mature/sane library for UI in Rust? I'd love to use Rust for a desktop app I want to write.
    • lj3 9y ago
      Does Nuklear fit your definition of sane UI library? https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear https://github.com/snuk182/nuklear-rust https://github.com/snuk182/nuklear-rust
      • StavrosK 9y ago
        That looks interesting, but I'm talking about something more like GTK, ie something that looks somewhat native and is easily portable across OSes.
    • andrewflnr 9y ago
      This comes up in /r/rust periodically, and IIRC the answer is still pretty much "no". It is getting better, though, slowly. I'm on my phone and too lazy to find a link for you, but search /r/rust for discussions about GUI libraries/frameworks.
    • steveklabnik 9y ago
      Integration with GTK is getting easier and nicer, but there's more work to do.
  • sametmax 9y ago
    Yeah but you are much more productive using them from a higher level language binding. E.G: QT used from Python with PyQT.
  • K0nserv 9y ago
    Before I started programming in Rust I had similar concerns when I saw people pushing rust as backend language choice. However having written a non significant amount of rust it does really well at feeling a lot like ruby/python while still achieving high performance and low level access.