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by BoingBoomTschak 381 days ago
What's your point? There's a lot to criticize about these libraries, but the fact remains that they're considered important and basically impossible to rewrite from scratch. Of course, Rust could get a rock solid portable GUI toolkit that doesn't rely on a webview (probably not much harder than wrapping Qt, to be honest), but it's not there yet.

I'm not in love with them or the abomination known as C++, if that's what you're implying.
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ogoffart 381 days ago
> Rust could get a rock solid portable GUI toolkit that doesn't rely on a webview [...], but it's not there yet.

What would you say is missing in Slint?

> probably not much harder than wrapping Qt, to be honest

There are already Qt bindings for rust (cxx-qt, qmetaobject-rs). What's missing from these?

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tialaramex 381 days ago
> basically impossible to rewrite from scratch

How so? This definitely needs at least a citation of somebody who can explain in detail why this code is "impossible to rewrite". Who wrote the one we have now, Martians?

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