[apatheticonion]

> you'll see that we still haven't figured out how to do Rust UIs

This is really a symptom of the horrendous desktop GUI API landscape. I'd argue that Rust is syntactically actually very well suited to writing GUI applications - and better than most given the fearless concurrency you get with it.

MacOS is committed to making sure only developers are using Mac hardware and Apple languages to write GUIs - they feel deliberately combative to the prospect of cross platform applications

Windows? How do you even make a Windows GUI these days? Win32? WinUI? Winforms? The examples on the Microsoft website don't even compile when when using the supported languages.

Linux is pretty okay, if it weren't for Linux GUI programming being a mess of DEs. GTK-rs and QT are standard - but you'll never have something that looks consistent on every environment.

The only hope is WASM, but the standards body is busy figuring out how to make web assembly replace docker containers or something. It's barely usable and I've been dying to rewrite all my web applications in Rust.

This is why Electron is everywhere, it's the best we can do without going insane.