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by ogoffart 2y ago
Other editors have kind of standardized it to associate a language to a command to run and communicate trough the stdout/stdin. Why do vscode need to be more complicated? (even this association could be done with a local DB similar to
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by ogoffart 2y ago
I've implemented a LSP server (for Slint - https://slint.dev ) and I agree with this article. The paradox is that it was meant to avoid to write language support for each editor. Yet, if you want to support vscode you must c
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by ogoffart 2y ago
For calling C++ libraries from Rust, there is also https://crates.io/crates/cpp
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by ogoffart 2y ago
> if the Rust crowd is hell bent on rewriting everything, why don't they clone the VCL and the GUI designer? I'm trying to work on it with https://slint.rs Our VS code extension has a drag and drop GUI editor.
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DSLs in UI Development: Why Learning a DSL Isn't Harder Than Mastering an API(slint.dev)
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by ogoffart 2y ago
40MB was the criteria coming from the article. But it's much smaller than that. I don't have the exact number in mind. I'd say much less than 20MB.
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by ogoffart 2y ago
There must be some confusion. This is not a web framework, it is a compiled framework with API for several programming languages (including C++) and no HTML/CSS.
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by ogoffart 2y ago
I'm working on a GUI toolkit that should match the requirements: Slint - https://slint.dev Can be compiled statically in a single .exe that is smaller than 40M. Has a license that allow proprietary on desktop for free. Has
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by ogoffart 2y ago
With Slint [ https://slint.dev ], we're also trying to make a desktop GUI toolkit that'd work in typescript. So I think there is indeed an opportunity.
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by ogoffart 2y ago
Unsafe is still needed in some cases to access low-level APIs or to talk to the hardware. It can still be safe because that is limited in scope, and still makes the whole product easier to review.
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by ogoffart 2y ago
Why do you want to make your desktop application "web-based", instead of using a framework that renders without the need of a browser?
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by ogoffart 2y ago
(2023) Not surprising that tauri is slightly behind since it uses a webview. I'm curious why Slint was not included in the benchmark.
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by ogoffart 3y ago
As the author of both Slint and qmetaobject-rs, I wonder if you checked out Slint[1] and what were the reason you didn't pick it. [1] https://slint.rs
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Not long ago there was also a post about "Unicode Separated Value" https://github.com/sixarm/usv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679378
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by ogoffart 3y ago
The policy in Fedora is precisely that upstream must not vendor (bundle) their dependencies https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#b... https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US&#x2F
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by ogoffart 3y ago
According to IMDB, the show is rated "TV-MA", so not really "aimed at younger viewers" Edit: I just noticed that some of the other show mentioned in the article also have this classification. So I guess this is not relev
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Slint is under three licenses: There The GPL for open source users, the royalty-free license for proprietary desktop application (which is free of charge), and the commercial license. The royalty free is even better than the LGPL for Rust b
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by ogoffart 3y ago
> Is there a great Rust GUI library that is both lightweight and looks good? I'm going to say Slint. https://slint.rs
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by ogoffart 3y ago
> Seriously, its $CURRENT_YEAR and getting a simple cross platform windowed graphical application up and running is still a pain? $CURRENT_YEAR was 2018. Really early in the Rust history. There are now a bunch of Rust GUI framework to c
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Someone has to first write bindings to the library using said FFI. This is not something most JavaScript dev can do. This has to be written by someone who knows C++ and JavaScript, and be good at both to understand all the details. (How the
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by ogoffart 3y ago
I am the current passive maintainer of the cpp crate: https://crates.io/crates/cpp / https://github.com/mystor/rust-cpp I'm a bit disappointed that cxx gets all the glory and nobody like
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by ogoffart 3y ago
FLTK and other libraries cannot be used from JavaScript. JavaScript is one of the most popular programming language. But a JavaScript dev who needs to make a desktop GUI will usually need to use Electron to bring up a browser for the GUI. T
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by ogoffart 3y ago
I'm interrested in the WebGPU feature. With Slint [1] we're working on a framework which allow to make a desktop GUI in Javascript/Typescript, without bringing a browser/webview. Currently, we do it by using binaries thr
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Rich Text content is not yet implemented. This is tracked in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/2723 Thanks for reporting the broken link. Fixed in https://github.com/slint-ui/slint
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by ogoffart 3y ago
It is not so difficult to replicate your design in Slint. This is what I came up in by trying it quickly: https://slintpad.com/?load_url=https://gist.github.com/ogoff... (but yeah, needs some polish)
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by ogoffart 3y ago
As others have pointed out, Slint is inspired from the good parts of QML. The Equivalent to QAbstractItemModel is the slint::Model class[1]. That API is actually easier to use as it simple indices instead of the concept of QModelIndex/
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Depends on the backend. With our main backend (the winit backend) it uses AccessKit [ https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit ] With our Qt backend (used for the Qt native style on Linux), it uses Qt accessibility infra
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Slint do have accessibility support though. (docs: https://slint.dev/releases/1.4.1/docs/slint/src/language/bui... ) Is it not good enough?
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by ogoffart 3y ago
Slint author here. Allow me to share a few reasons why we believe choosing Slint over Qt: - Qt is a C++ framework for C++ developers, its language bindings for other languages, are second-class citizens and not truly idiomatic (I know, I&#x
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by ogoffart 3y ago
https://slint.dev/demos/todo/

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