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elmt35 | 3 months ago

Zed (https://zed.dev) is a GUI built in rust. Im not an expert in GUI building so maybe I'm wrong and they used a separate language for the GUI.

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adastra22|3 months ago

They use Rust, but they basically reinvented the wheel for everything they did, because the existing GUI stuff in the rust ecosystem sucked so badly it wasn't worth fixing.

Which is great, Zed's stack is pretty damn good. But like anything not yet widely used outside of its original use case, it can be rough around the edges, and just plain doesn't support anything that is not needed by Zed.

IshKebab|3 months ago

Yeah and even then they have a ton of rendering and performance issues. GUI frameworks are just incredibly hard to do right, and take a ton of time.

I'm betting on Slint. I kind of hated QML but it looks like they have learned a lot of lessons.

norman784|3 months ago

I think they wanted more control over the GUI, so the best answer to that is build something that you have 100% control over. In one of their first blog posts they explain more in deep the reasons.

> Inspired by the gaming world, we realized that the only way to achieve the performance we needed was to build our own UI framework: GPUI. [0]

GPUI is not widely used because they only recently started publishing in crates.io [1] and still AFAIK their documentation is not that great yet, I suppose people will start using soon enough it, I was thinking on using it over Iced that was the other GUI that I feel that have future (because it's used by Cosmic Desktop).

[0] https://zed.dev/blog/videogame [1] https://crates.io/crates/gpui/versions

the__alchemist|3 months ago

I'm glad they contributed something fantastic to the Rust GUI system, but I don't think this is fair: EGUI is fantastic.