[sebtron]

> Are people making user facing apps in rust with uis?

We are talking not only about Rust, but also about C and C++. There are lots of C++ UI applications. Rust poses itself as an alternative to C++, so it is definitely intended to be used for UI applications too - it was created to write a browser!

At work I am using tools such as uv [1] and ruff [2], which are user-facing (although not GUI), and I definitely appreciate a 16x speedup if possible.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

[2]https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

[jenadine]

> There are lots of C++ UI applications.

Is there? UI applications historically used to be written in C++. But in this decade, I don't think many new GUI are being written in C++

[pjmlp]

Games are, anything based on Qt/KDE, UWP/WinUI (even if it is mostly Microsoft employees).

Now even if it is Flutter, React Native, or Chrome/Electron, they are powered by C++ graphics engine, and language runtimes.