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0 pointsvbsteven6y ago0 comments

I have to spend some more time on it but due to lack of getting started documentation or examples it was hard to get a Hello World project running.

On the GTK-rs side the documentation [1] is much better and I was up and running with a sample project in a few minutes.

[1]: https://gtk-rs.org/

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slezyr6y ago· 1 in thread

Oh, wow. It looks horrible[1] in some cases. Even worse than most C++/Boost constructions.

[1]: https://gtk-rs.org/docs-src/tutorial/upcast_downcast

nicoburns6y ago

Yeah, existing GUI libraries tend to make heavy use of inheritance, which Rust doesn't support very well. I have high hopes for a Rust-native GUI library being the goto cross-platform UI library at some point. But that's probably still 2-5 years off at this point.

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