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It's unfortunate, but I agree with you regarding native Rust libraries. There is a reason why we don't have options in this domain, apart from Qt, Gtk (with lo
by the_duke 5y ago
It's unfortunate, but I agree with you regarding native Rust libraries.
There is a reason why we don't have options in this domain, apart from Qt, Gtk (with lot's of caveats) and more recently flutter.
Building a cross platform native UI toolkit is an immense amount of work.
It took Google a long time to turn Flutter into a decent option just for Android and iOS, and the newer desktop integrations are still very rough after years of work.
All for Rust implementations are not at all viable for professional usage, and won't get there without major corporate backing.
That said, the gtk bindings are in a good shape and very usable.
- Popegaf 5y agoAre there startups that still write desktop GUI applications? Maybe I'm just not informed, but most just seem to be an instance of chrome (aka electron) written to directly call a website or reuse the web application locally. If I'm not wrong and something doesn't change, we'll find ourselves surrounded by electron apps on our desktops.