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I used to write Qt in like 2006 but I've given up. I've been rolling my own thing in Rust. GPU first, ECS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

I used to write Qt in like 2006 but I've given up. I've been rolling my own thing in Rust. GPU first, ECS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system) based. It's surprisingly pleasant.

dman 6y ago
Is this an open source effort?
- adamnemecek 6y ago
  Not yet and I'm not sure I'll open source it.
  - dman 6y ago
    Best of luck!
  - preommr 6y ago
    I would've thought that HN of all places would understand that oss isn't the right solution for every project and that downvotes like this for someone just saying they might not make their work open source is ridiculous.
moonchild 6y ago
I've also been working on a ui lib. Rather different, though: gpu completely optional (though well supported); not ecs; c. I think there's a fundamental complexity that pervades popular ui libs (incl, qt, gtk, etc.), that doesn't need to be there.
- cellularmitosis 6y ago
  Is this something which you can share with the public? I'd very much like to see it! I feel like all the modern UI libs are based too heavily on OOP.
  - moonchild 6y ago
    Once it's done (tm). And there are other projects higher on the priority queue. However, note that I also use OOP. No inheritance (death to gobject!), but the whole thing is based around interface polymorphism. This actually simplifies the design significantly. And you can implement an imgui on top of it pretty easily, if you really like hidden state.
IvanAchlaqullah 6y ago
What crates did you use? I'm curious since I just started trying Rust.