Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs

• slint

  138 15,461 9.9 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  

There's a work-in-progress branch to embed a GStreamer video feed into a Slint window: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/tree/simon/gstreamer

• psst

  42 8,193 5.4 Rust

  Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

Not that I'm in any way suggesting that you have to have to pursue this, but I'd suggest that not having this as a goal is why it hasn't happened. I've seen apps built with Druid (like https://github.com/jpochyla/psst) and they look great. But when I looked into the documentation, I was really struggling to get started. In contrast, libraries like Iced are quite limited in what they can do and are not as architecturally sound as Druid, but seem to have put more effort into the onboarding experience and documentation for beginners (see also: the effort that Rust itself puts into being beginner friendly, and how that has enabled it jump into the mainstream where other similar languages have remained niche).

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• druid

  59 9,396 3.1 Rust

  A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit. (by linebender)

  

I think it's in Druid repo, but different branches, such as: https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/idiopath

• lapce

  178 33,269 9.7 Rust

  Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

  

Druid is interesting as a research project. But seeing that Lapce uses its own forks of druid and xi-rope/xi-editor and the last release of Druid is from January 202 it still changes too much to be able to use it. I think the biggest obstacle to more popularity is that it never managed to stabilize its API.

• dioxus

  155 18,812 9.9 Rust

  Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

  

yoo check out Dioxus :)

• bevy

  574 32,856 9.9 Rust

  A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  

Thanks for the kind words <3 I'm one of the maintainers of both bevy and taffy (our upstream layouting library)!

• taffy

  36 1,841 8.5 Rust

  A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

  

Thanks for the kind words <3 I'm one of the maintainers of both bevy and taffy (our upstream layouting library)!

• SaaSHub

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• rkyv

  13 2,609 9.1 Rust

  Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust

  

Any chance of working with zero-copy deserialization frameworks? like https://github.com/rkyv/rkyv or capnproto

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