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by nu11ptr 1574 days ago
AFAIK, the only complete desktop GUI option for Rust that is viable for large, professional apps is gtk-rs. There are many promising up and coming GUIs for hobby projects, but none I've seen are robust enough (yet) to support all needed widgets of a pro app.
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Macha 1574 days ago
Accessibility support is the big killer for many of them, though even GTK has issues with that on Mac OS, so Qt would be a big win.

Or I guess you could put a Rust wasm app into electron also and have accessibility support that way. Has to be one that uses a real DOM and not just renders to a canvas or WebGL though.

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ogoffart 1574 days ago
I think you can go quite far with Qt/QML and the qmetaobject crate. For example https://github.com/gyroflow/gyroflow
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nu11ptr 1574 days ago
Ahh...very cool, thx. Didn't realize it was that capable and was not aware of this "demo". I will check it out as I need to write a GUI soon (and would prefer to use Rust).
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