SPsph·Jan 30, 2023Submission
Relm – idiomatic GTK-based GUI library for Rust
2 points · Open discussionantoyo
relm
Rust2017–2023
antoyo / relm
relm
Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust
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Idiomatic, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm, written in Rust
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- antoyo/tiger-rs · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Observed mentions: 2017-04-27 21:30:52 UTC to 2023-01-30 09:25:37 UTC.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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11 sourcesNo , not really a lot of the time people are trying to tackle problems that have taken years to solve in other languages which isn’t easy and is why you see stuff abandoned. This project is also pretty similar to https://github.com/antoyo/relm which is an active project.
In A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rsLocation: Greater Montreal Area (Québec), Canada
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, Linux, compiler construction, assembly, C
Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/story/antoyo
Email: antoni.boucher [at] samsung [dot] com
- I'm the developer of the relm GUI library, written in Rust: https://github.com/antoyo/relm
- I developed a compiler backend, including instruction selection and register allocation: https://github.com/antoyo/tiger-rs
- Author of the book Rust Programming by Example: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/rust-programming-example
In Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)Location: Greater Montreal Area (Québec), Canada
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, Linux, compiler construction, assembly, C
Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/story/antoyo
Email: antoni.boucher [at] samsung [dot] com
- I'm the developer of the relm GUI library, written in Rust: https://github.com/antoyo/relm
- I developed a compiler backend, including instruction selection and register allocation: https://github.com/antoyo/tiger-rs
In Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)Also Relm which is Rust+Elm-inspired+Gtk
https://github.com/antoyo/relm
In Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in RustThe problem is called borrow checker, and that while the Rust team already has done lots of improvements with NLL, the use of widget data in callbacks remains a pain point.
"Appendix: What the proposal won’t fix"
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/07/11/non-...
So one could say, it is a case of holding it wrong, and a Rust UI toolkit needs to be written from scratch. Which might be ok, but it does require some support for market adoption.
Having said this, Gtk-rs now has some help in the form of relm, exactly to overcome this issue.
https://github.com/antoyo/relm
In Speedy Desktop Apps with GTK and RustTo expand on your point, the most interesting library I’ve seen for desktop GUIs in Rust is “relm”. It’s as the name implies an FRP-like and Elm-inspired library for Rust.
https://github.com/antoyo/relm/blob/master/README.adoc
In State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]There are already some projects that let you do that, consider Relm for example: https://github.com/antoyo/relm/blob/master/examples/http/src...
In Librem 5 Docshttps://github.com/antoyo/relm is almost that, except elm-inspired rather than react-
In Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web appsYou will be happy to hear that there was a GNOME Hackfest in Mexico recently, attended by several Rust team members. Some productive plans were sketched out for the future; as the GNOME project adopts Rust more and more, I expect this to get easier and easier.
You also might like https://github.com/antoyo/relm
In Rust 1.17