native-windows-gui

A light windows GUI toolkit for rust

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A light windows GUI toolkit for rust

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2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
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staticlibs·Nov 19, 2024

Fltkhs [1] was the best ever experience I've had while doing small/auxiliary GUI utilities. Now using NWG [2] for that (UI forms examples [3]) and it is so much less elegant and so much more verbose than Fltkhs. Resulting lean EXEs without any bundled runtime are nice though. [1] https://github.com/deech/fltkhs [2] https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui [3] https://github.com/wiltondb/wiltondb/wiki/WiltonDB-Data-Tran...

In FLTK 1.4 Released

robertkrahn01·Dec 14, 2022

https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui isn't in the list but is quite a polished option for building Windows specific GUIs. Seems to be the more mature option compared to winsafe.

In Rust: State of GUI, December 2022

krapp·Jan 5, 2022

Probably never. The web is becoming, if it hasn't already become, the universal platform for application development and distribution, and javascript the One True programming language. Every holdout will eventually and inevitably be assimilated, either transpiled into javascript or compiled into WebAssembly. And it's partly the fault of the native programming community. It should be as easy to write a native, cross-platform application as it is to write html, css and javascript. Native developers should recognize what works about the web paradigm and adapt to it. There should be forks of these technologies specifically designed for native application development rather than documents. But that never happened, GUI development is still basically programming and it still sucks and now the train has left the station. The only relevant innovat

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ion likely to happen now will be iterating on the web-app model. I mean, I'm looking at the layout tutorial for Flutter now[0]. It's nesting function calls and you have to update a yaml file to include an image, whereas with HTML it's a simple table or maybe grid and the img tag. This example for Rust[1] is ridiculously verbose and noisy compared to the web stack. All GUI programming is. Meanwhile I can write a fully functioning website with nothing but a text editor. No need to install a language runtime, package manager or IDE, no need to learn a company specific workflow or follow a style guide. No need to memorize a new set of quirky verbs for a CLI. I don't even like the web-app paradigm, but I can totally understand why it won. [0]https://docs.flutter.dev/development/ui/layout/tutorial [1]https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui

In Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

luciferchase·Jul 18, 2021Submission

native-windows-gui: A light windows GUI toolkit for rust

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