winit

Window handling library in pure Rust

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Window handling library in pure Rust

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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	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	0	5
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0

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There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche: - https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today) - https://github.com/vizia/vizia - https://github.com/marc2332/freya - https://github.com/linebender/xilem (currently very incomplete but exciting because it's from a team with a strong track record) What is also exciting to me is that the Rust GUI ecosystem is in many cases building itself up with modular libraries. So while we have umpteen competing frameworks they are to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have: - https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation) - https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of vulkan/metal/dx12) - https://github.com/linebender/vello (a canvas like imperative drawing API on top of wgpu

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) - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms) - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing) - https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs) In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui for a more complete list of frameworks and foundational libraries)