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0 pointsexceptione3y ago0 comments

That's sad. I would love to tinker with UI programming on Linux, but it seems like to get anything decent you will have to use QT, which brings C++ as a requirement.

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pjmlp3y ago

You can have a look at its issues,

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

Note the lack of of safe wrappers for Windows APIs, and still no good way to create the Windows Runtime objects necessary to interoperate with XAML.

Also the basic examples with very little UI code on what is supposed to be a projection for a Windows UI framework.

exceptioneOP3y ago

Thanks. I did not mean XAML literally though, something like that would be super nice for Linux. The project you linked brings Windows RT as a requirement. But just something with the richness of QT + Rust on Linux would be welcome. I am hearing the rust bindings for QT are just a pain and incomplete. I was hoping for Rust to really offer an alternative for C++ here.

pjmlp3y ago

Well, there is Slint in that case, from former Qt devs, but it is still pretty much early days.

https://slint-ui.com/

Check their online demos.

exceptioneOP3y ago

Thank you, still early indeed but the project looks promising. I am really hoping for the Return of the Desktop in which episode Rust defeats C++ and we all have a sane, safe, free and memory abiding computing experience.

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pjmlp3y ago

You can have a look at its issues,

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

Note the lack of of safe wrappers for Windows APIs, and still no good way to create the Windows Runtime objects necessary to interoperate with XAML.

Also the basic examples with very little UI code on what is supposed to be a projection for a Windows UI framework.

exceptioneOP3y ago

pjmlp3y ago

Well, there is Slint in that case, from former Qt devs, but it is still pretty much early days.

https://slint-ui.com/

Check their online demos.

exceptioneOP3y ago

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