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iamsaitam | 3 months ago

It seems Rust has now achieved the glorious status of JS's "there's a new UI framework coming out every day"

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enricozb|3 months ago

It's kind of an exploratory phase for what works sensibly with Rust's borrow checker, especially since most UI libraries/frameworks really rely on a GC.

swiftcoder|3 months ago

And none of them really work for non-trivial apps! Welcome to hell

the__alchemist|3 months ago

I'm using EGUI for a all-in-one molecular viewer / CAD. It's like PyMol, Coot, GROMACS and VMD in one. If this is trivial, I would like to see what you consider to be non-trivial!

There are parts of the rust ecosystem that are only built for trivial apps (And demos, blog posts etc), but GUI is not one.

mdhb|3 months ago

It’s just not actually a very good language for writing UIs in compared to say Dart, Swift or Kotlin.