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I completely agree with your thoughts. However, Rust is getting a lot of traction these days. Sooner or later more people will start to wonder "How do I write a
by dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
I completely agree with your thoughts. However, Rust is getting a lot of traction these days. Sooner or later more people will start to wonder "How do I write a portable app in it?" The Qt solution is a neat one, and might soon become the de facto standard - something similar happened with Python and Tk in the past.
- danieldk 8y agoI have dabbled a bit in Rust GUI programming for a small project and gtk-rs also works quite well. Is is also actively maintained and has regular releases. http://gtk-rs.org/ http://gtk-rs.org/ Some people from the GNOME and Rust communities are working on macro magic that allows you to create GObject classes from Rust [1]. The downside is that the applications do not look native on macOS or Windows. But so doesn't Electron ;). [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/federico/gnome-class/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/federico/gnome-class/
- foldr 8y agoHistorically, only languages with enormous amounts of traction have developed mature, consistently maintained GUI libraries. Right now, it's basically only C++, Python and Java that have any.