rust-qt-binding-generator

I was wondering the same thing a few weeks back and found this project from the folks at KDE: https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator They provide some tutorial links in the README.

There were multiple attempts at such bindings. The most promising is this one: https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator > You're ultimately not escaping C/C++ for any systems development. We eventually should. C/C++ should retire even for drivers and kernels. But for now there is still a lot of baggage to deal with indeed.

You can use rust https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator There are Go bindings floating around too

Thanks for the pointers! I have used Qt a fair bit for hobby projects, and quite like it in the context of cross-platform C++. But I haven't yet wrapped my head around what a Rust interface to Qt would look like, and results searching https://crates.io for Qt bindings had kinda scared me off. https://github.com/KDE/rust-qt-binding-generator looks quite interesting though! > So tl;dr it's quickly moving from "terrible and immature" to "terrible, like other languages". Ha! Well, at least we don't have so long to wait, I guess.

I've read about this project in the past and although it definitely is interesting it's still a bit unclear to me if this is a way to use Qt through Rust or the other way around. Reading through this example it seems like you use QML to structure you UI which is straightforward enough but there are a couple of qml crates which do pretty much the same thing without including an extra binding generation step (or C++ at all). Searching through the repo [0,1] it seems like you still need to write a certain amount of C++ especially if you're using QtWidgets instead of QML. So in my eyes this seems like a way to incorporate Rust code into a Qt project rather than build a Qt interface for use in Rust, as the end program is essentially a C++ program with some Rust bits. From what I understand if you have a fair amount of existing Rust code to reu