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by sebtron 155 days ago
> Are people making user facing apps in rust with uis?

We are talking not only about Rust, but also about C and C++. There are lots of C++ UI applications. Rust poses itself as an alternative to C++, so it is definitely intended to be used for UI applications too - it was created to write a browser!

At work I am using tools such as uv [1] and ruff [2], which are user-facing (although not GUI), and I definitely appreciate a 16x speedup if possible.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

[2]https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
1 comments
jenadine 154 days ago
> There are lots of C++ UI applications.

Is there? UI applications historically used to be written in C++. But in this decade, I don't think many new GUI are being written in C++

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pjmlp 154 days ago
Games are, anything based on Qt/KDE, UWP/WinUI (even if it is mostly Microsoft employees).

Now even if it is Flutter, React Native, or Chrome/Electron, they are powered by C++ graphics engine, and language runtimes.

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estebank 154 days ago
The engine being written in C++ does not mean the application is. You're conflating the platform with what is being built on top of it. Your logic would mean that all Python applications should be counted as C applications.
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pjmlp 154 days ago
Indeed too many fake Python libraries.
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