[rust-dev] Recommendations for a GUI toolkit for rust

[rust-dev] Recommendations for a GUI toolkit for rust

[Prasoon Shukla]

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Hey all

I have been thinking of making a small text editor, with emacs-like
fundamentals, as a way learning rust this winter break. I need a GUI
toolkit for this, of course. So, I searched for it and found this page:
https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust

This page gives a few choices to me and since everything is alpha right now
(both the language and the toolkits), I don't know which one to choose. As
a reference, I have used GTK+ before and so, I could probably use it again
<https://github.com/JeremyLetang/rgtk>. However, my primary concern is that
the toolkit I use would stop active development - I don't want to have to
port everything to another toolkit later on. So, if any project shows
promise of continuing, please suggest it to me.

Thank you.
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Re: [rust-dev] Recommendations for a GUI toolkit for rust

[Gaetan]

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To my opinion qt is far better, more portable, more easy to work with, but
binding qt on rust is quite a challenge.

I think binding gtk3 is much easier, however I don't think there is any
project ready for production yet.


Le mardi 25 novembre 2014, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hey all
>
> I have been thinking of making a small text editor, with emacs-like
> fundamentals, as a way learning rust this winter break. I need a GUI
> toolkit for this, of course. So, I searched for it and found this page:
> https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust
>
> This page gives a few choices to me and since everything is alpha right
> now (both the language and the toolkits), I don't know which one to choose.
> As a reference, I have used GTK+ before and so, I could probably use it
> again <https://github.com/JeremyLetang/rgtk>. However, my primary concern
> is that the toolkit I use would stop active development - I don't want to
> have to port everything to another toolkit later on. So, if any project
> shows promise of continuing, please suggest it to me.
>
> Thank you.
> ᐧ
>


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Gaetan

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Re: [rust-dev] Recommendations for a GUI toolkit for rust

[Prasoon Shukla]

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Oh well. I ended up using conrod (https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod)
for this, primarily because I need access to the underlying data model for
the text.
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Gaetan <gaetan@xeberon.net> wrote:

> To my opinion qt is far better, more portable, more easy to work with, but
> binding qt on rust is quite a challenge.
>
> I think binding gtk3 is much easier, however I don't think there is any
> project ready for production yet.
>
>
> Le mardi 25 novembre 2014, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> Hey all
>>
>> I have been thinking of making a small text editor, with emacs-like
>> fundamentals, as a way learning rust this winter break. I need a GUI
>> toolkit for this, of course. So, I searched for it and found this page:
>> https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust
>>
>> This page gives a few choices to me and since everything is alpha right
>> now (both the language and the toolkits), I don't know which one to choose.
>> As a reference, I have used GTK+ before and so, I could probably use it
>> again <https://github.com/JeremyLetang/rgtk>. However, my primary
>> concern is that the toolkit I use would stop active development - I don't
>> want to have to port everything to another toolkit later on. So, if any
>> project shows promise of continuing, please suggest it to me.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> ᐧ
>>
>
>
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> -----
> Gaetan
>
>
>

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Re: [rust-dev] Recommendations for a GUI toolkit for rust

[Robert Knight]

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> However, my primary concern is that the toolkit I use would stop active
development - I don't want to have to port everything to another toolkit
later on.
> So, if any project shows promise of continuing, please suggest it to me.

Both Qt and GTK+ have been around for a long time and are actively used in
a lot of software. GTK+ has had lulls in its development in the past and
Qt's development
focus is dependent on who the majority of Digia's customers are, so neither
is risk free but both are probably reasonably safe.

Another alternative would be to use a browser as the UI and implement the
bulk of the logic in Rust.

On 25 November 2014 at 17:53, Gaetan <gaetan@xeberon.net> wrote:

> To my opinion qt is far better, more portable, more easy to work with, but
> binding qt on rust is quite a challenge.
>
> I think binding gtk3 is much easier, however I don't think there is any
> project ready for production yet.
>
>
> Le mardi 25 novembre 2014, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> Hey all
>>
>> I have been thinking of making a small text editor, with emacs-like
>> fundamentals, as a way learning rust this winter break. I need a GUI
>> toolkit for this, of course. So, I searched for it and found this page:
>> https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust
>>
>> This page gives a few choices to me and since everything is alpha right
>> now (both the language and the toolkits), I don't know which one to choose.
>> As a reference, I have used GTK+ before and so, I could probably use it
>> again <https://github.com/JeremyLetang/rgtk>. However, my primary
>> concern is that the toolkit I use would stop active development - I don't
>> want to have to port everything to another toolkit later on. So, if any
>> project shows promise of continuing, please suggest it to me.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> ᐧ
>>
>
>
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> Gaetan
>
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