TOtosh·Dec 14, 2021Submission
Druid: A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit
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druid
Rust2019–2022
linebender / druid
druid
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
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A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
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- iced-rs/iced · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- linebender/piet · linked in 3 of the same discussions
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesDruid does its own rendering using piet and uses some native controls.
Here's an example of Druid rendering a button. https://github.com/linebender/druid/blob/master/druid/src/wi...
In Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by ElmGenuine question: Does somebody understand how this compares to Druid https://github.com/linebender/druid
In Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by ElmDruid: A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit
2 points · Open discussionWhat about the UI framework druid? It has 3.9k stars on Github and is under active development.
https://github.com/linebender/druid
In Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)One I am excited for is Druid. Is is worked on by some of the same people that the xi editor, and they really understand responsive design and good font rendering.
The backend is Piet, which are platform native crates. And then Druid abstracts over those backends. This lets you write GUI code once and then use native API’s and features.
https://github.com/linebender/druid
https://github.com/linebender/piet
In Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in RustI think it's mostly that Rust has a lot of energy behind it while and it attracts people who tend to be very capable and interested. Notably, [druid][0] and related projects are being worked on by [Raph Levien][1] who, well, I'll just quote his HN bio:
> I do research on fundamental UI technology and 2D graphics, with a focus on Rust and fonts. Currently on the Google Fonts team.
Rust also addresses many of my grievances with GTK and C++, notably the need to bolt on (although "bolt on" seems to imply less fragility than is the case) language features to give a higher level facade or otherwise deal with the deeply impoverished C and C++ build tools. Related to the previous point, Rust makes it much easier to bring in a dependency and write tests. Similarly, Rust benefits from a long tail of minor tooling improvements including documentati
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on generation and hosting to text editor integration (Qt ships their own IDE which is of decent quality, but you have to go all-in on it; you don't get to use the plugins, keybindings, etc that you know and love from vscode / vim / emacs /etc and even then IIRC it only knows about things in the Qt project but not necessarily third party libraries--although with enough blood, sweat, and tears you can probably cobble together something based on clang metadata).
[0]: https://github.com/linebender/druid
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raphlinus
Druid: A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit
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