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Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? I

by mook 8d ago

Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? I'm interested in getting back to native application development; the job is on Electron right now and it's… meh.

ogoffart 7d ago
Slint ?
the__alchemist 7d ago
EGUI. Note: You ask different people, and they will all have their favorite tool kits. GPUI is very promising but new. There are a pile of others people will vouch for like Druid, Tauri (Electron-like but faster?) Slint (As the sibling poster pointed out), Iced, Qt bindings etc. I am not sure about native Windows etc bindings: I recognize that OS-native things like that are the most performant, but for me it's worth it to make my programs cross-platform and not worry about OS-specific things. Note: EGUI is an immediate mode GUI, which isn't for all applications. But it has never limited me, and have written some complex UIs with integrated 3D etc.
okanat 7d ago
> Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? If your goal is "delivering applications to only well-sighted people who can handle non-native and buggy UI", yes iced, EGUI, gpui exist. But as you can guess they are years behind Qt where you have quite the professional toolkit and properly implemented accessibility features (with a lot of bugs and horrible API because Qt). The only foolproof way of having truly professional software is still the same: have N different, very-well integrated UI implementations (like Adobe does, $$$ in developer or agent fees) or use a Web browser aka Electron. With Rust you can use Win32 or WinUI3. Both are provided by Microsoft-developed crate windows-rs.

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Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? I

by mook 8d ago

ogoffart 7d ago
Slint ?
the__alchemist 7d ago
EGUI. Note: You ask different people, and they will all have their favorite tool kits. GPUI is very promising but new. There are a pile of others people will vouch for like Druid, Tauri (Electron-like but faster?) Slint (As the sibling poster pointed out), Iced, Qt bindings etc. I am not sure about native Windows etc bindings: I recognize that OS-native things like that are the most performant, but for me it's worth it to make my programs cross-platform and not worry about OS-specific things. Note: EGUI is an immediate mode GUI, which isn't for all applications. But it has never limited me, and have written some complex UIs with integrated 3D etc.
okanat 7d ago
> Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? If your goal is "delivering applications to only well-sighted people who can handle non-native and buggy UI", yes iced, EGUI, gpui exist. But as you can guess they are years behind Qt where you have quite the professional toolkit and properly implemented accessibility features (with a lot of bugs and horrible API because Qt). The only foolproof way of having truly professional software is still the same: have N different, very-well integrated UI implementations (like Adobe does, $$$ in developer or agent fees) or use a Web browser aka Electron. With Rust you can use Win32 or WinUI3. Both are provided by Microsoft-developed crate windows-rs.