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rust-windowing / winit

winit

Window handling library in pure Rust

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Window handling library in pure Rust

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Observed mentions: 2019-02-28 01:28:18 UTC to 2025-12-22 02:14:32 UTC.

0123452019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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nicoburns·Dec 12, 2024
> Is this something Flutter doesn't do? Flutter does do this (at least to some extent) on Desktop/Mobile. It attempts to create a hidden DOM tree for accessibility on web. Which generally doesn't seem to be thought to work very well. > One of the most jarring experiences I have with Flutter Desktop was it lacked MacOS Emacs-style key bindings for text editing (ctrl-a, ctrl-e, etc.). Not sure if Dioxus solved this? Ah, we're nearly there on that one. We have a PR [0] accepted into Winit (the underlying windowing library we use) which will allow us to access those events. We're just waiting on Winit to do a new release and then we can integrate it into Dioxus. [0]: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/3824)
In Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust
westurner·Jun 14, 2024
> The consortium aims to develop guidelines, tools, libraries, and language subsets to meet industrial and legal requirements for safety-critical systems. > Moreover, the initiative seeks to incorporate lessons learned from years of development in the open source ecosystem to make Rust a valuable component of safety toolkits across various industries and severity levels Resources and opportunities for a safety critical Rust initiative: - "The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set to Land in Linux 6.8" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677600 - awesome-safety-critical > Software safety standards: https://awesome-safety-critical.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#so... - rust smart pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563857 ; LLVM signed pointers for pointer authentication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307180 From h
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ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563857 : > - Secure Rust Guidelines > Memory management, > Checklist > Memory management: https://anssi-fr.github.io/rust-guide/05_memory.html Rust OS projects to safety critical with the forthcoming new guidelines: Redox, Cosmic, MotorOS, Maestro, Aerugo - "MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907876: "Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38852360#38857185 ; redox-os, cosmic-de , Motūrus OS; MotorOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861799 : > COSMIC DE (Rust-based) supports rust-windowing/winit apps, which compile to a <canvas> tag in WASM. > winit: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit - "Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245897 - "The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743393 From a previous Ctrl-F rust,; "Rust in the Linux kernel" (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35783214 : - > Is this the source for the rust port of the Android binder kernel module?: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/... > This guide with unsafe rust that calls into the C, and then with next gen much safer rust right next to it would be a helpful resource too. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744433 ... From "Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28709239 : >>>>> Which universities teach formal methods? /?hnlog "TLA" and "side channel"
In Industry forms consortium to drive adoption of Rust in safety-critical systems
alokedesai·Feb 22, 2024
Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp. I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp at https://www.warp.dev/. We've gotten 2-3 reports of authentication issues like the one the author mentions. We are actively looking into it; we believe its an issue with a library we depend on to open URLs. If anyone is experiencing these issues, please contact us at support@warp.dev so we can better understand the issue and further debug! Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity
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by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows). Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges. [1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
In Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
alokedesai·Feb 22, 2024
Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp. I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/ Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows). Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges. [1] https:
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//github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
In Linux version of Warp terminal is here

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