[wishawa]

Hi HN! I've been working on Async UI for half a year now, and I think it is time I share it with everyone. The project is not even really usable yet (due to lack of implemented components and documentation), but I think the proof-of-concept is enough to demonstrate this new way of doing UI — a way that, I believe, is more suitable to Rust than existing UI framework designs.

P.S. My website is new, so if you find any readability or accessibility issue, please let me know!

[karmakaze]

I don't use Rust (yet) but was still curious how this looks-n-feels. I get a distinct React JSX vibe from it. I get that this is a very flexible way of building but at the same time I prefer having the component templates 'at the top' as in Vue rather than control flow. Even Vue is built from using builder control flow underneath so it's a different authoring environment vs different implementation. Another one that's interesting is Elm.

Best of luck and I'll be checking out where this ends up going.

[api]

I really like what I see so far, especially the out of the box focus on web as well as desktop. That's absolutely killer.

One thing to not neglect is accessibility. Even if it's not fully baked yet giving it some thought in the API and implementing for web would be a big plus. Accessibility is the hill most non-mainstream UI toolkits die on. They usually leave it for later and then find that it's hard because they didn't think about it.

Being retained mode puts you ahead in the accessibility game right away.