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by Natela 2798 days ago
This is a nice experiment ! There are a few people starting to hack around with WebRender. There are already Limn, Azul, Stylish, etc...it would be nice if we joined forces in developing one good UI framework powered by WebRender.
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mitchtbaum 2798 days ago
https://github.com/christolliday/limn

https://github.com/maps4print/azul

https://github.com/Thinkofname/stylish

Here's another:

https://github.com/antoyo/servo-gtk

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cztomsik 2798 days ago
Thanks for those links, azul is very interesting!

This is my first rust project, so I'm not sure if I would be any help

I also think it's better to have as much GUI part as possible in typescript, try-and-refine cycle is shorter and imagine how it could be with live/hot-reload

What I'm trying to do is something like electron but lighter, faster and memory-savvy. I think it could use azul, so thanks a lot :-)

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Natela 2797 days ago
I agree, I think Typescript is a very good pick for UI developpement, it's easy to use yet you still have types that help with maintainability. I would definitely be using something like this to develop apps :). However there are people who prefer other languages so it'd be nice if we could have a WebRender UI framework on which we could write bindings for any language, similarly to QT and GTK that have bindings for several languages.
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