Comment on What is your favorite programming language?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year agoI use slint. You can also use the rust bindings to GTK. There are a list of Rust GUI libs/frameworks at areweguiyet.com
It allows compiling to WASM too and being embedded in websites, but I haven’t had time to figure that out yet.
Turun@feddit.de 1 year ago
How do you like the language to define the layout?
I’m always wary of DSLs.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s quite alright and I find it intuitive. For my needs, simple, fast UIs with async support, it’s perfectly alright.
The biggest problem I have is creating completely new UI elements (or components, as they are called in slint) from scratch. You can combine elements and make new ones, but if you want to create something completely new for example some new animation, or render graphs, or something, you’re going to have a bad time.
Turun@feddit.de 1 year ago
Thanks for your impression.
I’ve used egui twice now and there creation of custom components is easy and encouraged. I adapted a drop down menu to better suit my needs (typed input get highlighted in the available options) and it was easy to do so.