Has anyone here ever tried using Rust’s Qt or GTK bindings, or another library, to make a complex GUI beyond a few simple forms or dialog boxes? I keep hearing that the language’s architecture makes it really hard to do any sort of advanced GUI development on it, but what’s the actual experience like? How would you compare it to say, native Qt or GTK using C++/C respectively, or things like JavaFX or Flutter? Maybe even the .NET Framework or whatever Apple uses for their platform? Would you actually recommend Rust over any of those?

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    3 years ago

    The only GUI software written in Rust I’ve seen so far is Fractal but I’m not sure we could say it’s a complex GUI tho :/
    They are actually working on rewriting the software from scratch with GTK4

    We are working on rewriting Fractal from scratch using GTK4 and the matrix-rust-sdk. This effort is called fractal-next.