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Anyone had experience programming complex GUIs in Rust? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone here ever tried using Rust's Qt or GTK bindings, or another library, to make a complex GUI beyond a few simple forms or dialog boxes? I keep hearing that the language's architecture makes it really hard to do any sort of advanced GUI development on it, but what's the actual experience like? How would you compare it to say, native Qt or GTK using C++/C respectively, or things like JavaFX or Flutter? Maybe even the .NET Framework or whatever Apple uses for their platform? Would you actually recommend Rust over any of those?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Czkawka is a rewrite/improved version of FSlint written in Rust. It finds duplicate, broken, and excess files. And it can compare images and videos to find similar media. It uses Gtk (and Glade).

Edit: Oh, and RedoxOS is an entire GUI OS written in rust.

Sorry, I don't personally have any experience programming Rust. But both of the projects I listed have pretty rapid development so I can't imagine it's insanely difficult. Then again maybe the devs are just coding geniuses. The guy that does Redox also works for System76 and a lot of their software is written in Rust.