A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
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I did this in 2020 and then again in 2021, but I’m in the mood to look around again. Let’s look through Are We GUI Yet? and see what’s up these days.
  • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
    11·
    6 days ago

    No one is entitled to anything from open-source projects.

    I never said anything contrary to this.

    but Mac/mac (what is it now?) without hardware or VMware wasn’t fun

    Letting MacOS users support MacOS hardware is generally easy when you already have BSD and/or busybox support already.

    Windows support should always be seen as charity, not an obligation, for all [open source] projects where it’s not the primary target platform.

    Ordinarily I’d agree, except these are GUI Libraries.

    The whole point of them is to be a generic interface that prevents you from needing to use the platform specific APIs directly.

    If GUI libraries aren’t going to target the most widely used platforms, then why wouldn’t the developer just use the platform specific APIs directly?

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 days ago

      In reality Windows isn’t the most widely used platform, not where it counts, among the developers of those libraries. And finding competent Windows developers to contribute also isn’t easy while finding Windows users demanding support is quite easy since the factor of developers per user is so much worse on that platform.