Thread 106938886

Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Web, what's not to like about it?

>>106938886 (OP)
It's not GTK.

>>106938886 (OP)
its not a GUI framework, it's closer to imgui, just barebones and you are supposed to do everything yourself. Just use slint, it's made by ex-Qt employees

>>106938886 (OP)
There are countless other cross-platform UI toolkits.
Surprise, surprse, no one cares about only offloading UI busywork when you could also abstract virtually everything else away with the help of electon.

>>106938895
GTK is Microsoft's project to sabotage Linux and KDE.

i dont like traffic lights

>>106938898
>slint
Hadn't seen that, pretty cool. Can even run on Raspberry Pi's microcontrollers. Shame I can't read Rust.

>>106938886 (OP)
>Is (memelang project nobody's heard of, reinventing the wheel again) The Future?
No.

>>106938898
Why did they make slint when qt already exists? What problem are they trying to solve with slint that qt can't solve?

>>106939097
As an educated guess they probably wanted to implement Qt but strictly declarative without the Qt legacy cruft. And they picked Rust as a language of implementation because it's become very popular but still lacks decent native GUI frameworks so writing it for Rust would make it easier to compete.

>>106938886 (OP)
Did they implement selectable text? I wanted to use it for a shitposting application to autogenerate certain text and then copy/paste the result but iced, last time I checked, can only view text, and if you want to select text you need to edit it as well.

>>106939163
Any known projects that use Slint?

>>106939312
mostly toy projects and some embedded https://slint.dev/showcase

>>106938886 (OP)
>can't style iced
>no treeviews
>no charts
no.

>>106938886 (OP)
It looks like something discord trannies dreamed up.

>>106938886 (OP)
>inspired by elm
grim

>>106939662
Those apps look pretty good.

>>106938886 (OP)
>webshit

>>106938898
>just barebones
>cargo add iced
>cargo build
>du -sh target
>ONE FUCKING GIGABYTE

>>106938886 (OP)
Rust

>>106938895
Too bad it's lgpl. Would actually use it on other platforms if I could static link it into my rust binary. gtk4 just works otherwise. Sad!

>>106940637
>target
irrelevant, retard. Now do the same with clangd output or all the unstripped .o's of any big project. Retards like you, just out yourself as nocoders who don't write C or C++ either. Same shit when you retards reeee about build times. The amount of autismal shit I have to do to improve C++ builds is insane. Hard problems are hard. Shrimple as that.

>>106939011
Tauri is not really comparable to iced.

>>106938886 (OP)
i would use it when it has first class RTL support. the shaping part was fixed by using cosmic-text. but the gui elements themselves aren't ready for text that starts from the right and goes to the left.
i would help with that myself if i wasn't busy.
the rust gui story in general can be described as "increasingly usable, fast growing, but not mature yet".

>>106938886 (OP)
I just want a GUI framework from the macromedia flash Flex days

>>106941284
GTK is 300Mb and has MUCH more features

>>106941393
That's the final build artifact, dipshit nocoder.

>>106941342
I just googled and read it up and you're right, my fault.

>>106938886 (OP)
Clay for the C fans https://www.nicbarker.com/clay.

>>106939001
fun fact, system76 partnered with them or rather they partnered with system76 so they would use both iced and slint and system76 basically abandoned them because they want elm-like GUI while slint added a whole ass cosmic theme as the default for linux
rust scams rust

>>106941523
the site does weird shit with text selection

>>106941535
The whole Cosmic endavour is mostly shouldered by a single S76 developer who's not only getting fatter by the minute, but also seemingly entirely focused on his shitty rust-based Redox OS pet project. Don't forget that it was this dude who started, or at least greatly augmented, the rust-fanatic boycott of Linux kernel development after a series of his poorly documented pull requests were rejected by big bad meanies.

>>106939673
>grim
Why? Could you please give me a QRD?

>>106941363 (Me)
actually i just checked out slint and it looks like it doesn't strictly require QT. this could be a game changer. i will play with it when i have the time.

>>106941705
Are you mentally ill, retarded, or both?

>>106938886 (OP)
well, system86 backs it with cosmic. so at least for rust - yes. i also kind of like how it models itself after elm.

>>106938886 (OP)
I just want something as comf as visual C# .NET 3.5 but cross platform