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0 pointspjmlp7y ago0 comments

Were you trying to write GUI code?

Because of my experience it was also plain sailing, while doing the tutorials and exercises from the books I bought.

Then I tried to make a GUI application in Gtk-rs and had lots of fun with event handler callbacks, which are the main reason why Relm was created.

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epage7y ago

No, I have not written a GUI in Rust yet. I've been doing libraries and CLIs so far.

But I find the standard approaches to GUI broken: inheritance and shared mutable state. i think Rust does a service by highlighting the brittleness of this pattern via syntax / libraries.

I've not dealt with elm-like GUIs. Probably my natural inclination would be to use an actor framework. And to be clear, I am speaking from having written non-trivial GUIs with both GTK and Qt (I miss the Maemo days).

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