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0 pointsheavyset_go2y ago0 comments

Speaking of, does anyone know how Qt bindings for Rust are these days? Last time I looked, there were several awkward Rust APIs for Qt, suffering in part from the fact that Qt's API is inheritance-based.

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ThePhysicist2y ago

I think it's pretty difficult mapping the Qt memory management model to Rust, for the same reason we haven't seen working Golang bindings for Qt either. I have some experience with the Python bindings (PySide or PyQt) and both of them use pretty extensive wrapper generator frameworks specially developed for the task (SIP in the case of PyQt, Shiboken in the case of PySide), coming up with something like that is not an easy task at all. And Python is a language that was pretty much intended to act as a foreign function wrapper around low-level languages, while Rust & Golang are not primarily intended to be wrappers for other languages.

foldr2y ago

> https://github.com/therecipe/qt

Do these not work? (Not a rhetorical question - I haven’t tried them.)

c4mpute2y ago

They used to work until the big modules change a few golang releases ago. Now, nothing works anymore unless you exhume a sufficiently old golang compiler.

The project also seems dead since 2020 or so, a current fork is https://github.com/bluszcz/cutego/ But I haven't tried that one.

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sbt5672y ago

There is a recent article about this on r/rust https://blog.logrocket.com/build-desktop-app-qt-rust/

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