Hi guys,
This is the 7th post in the series "Crash course in Qt for C++ developers." Do you structure and architect your application in a similar way? Let me know what you think and I would appreciate if you have any feedback.
The bindgen that seems to show up on google search is very un-intuitive to use (or maybe that's because I'm a rust newbie)
https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-g...
I've tried most QT Rust projects and none were all that usable. I'm afraid your plans are not likely to succeed.
https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2018/10/30/building_qt_app...
If it fails to build on Mac OS, I'd like to see why and help. The latest version uses Cargo for building, so e.g. `cargo qrep && qrep` should give you a working Rust + Qt example application.
Personally, I like Qt a lot more than GTK (both as a programmer and a user), but to each their own. QtQuick/QML is really great way of quickly whipping together complex UI’s. I’ve never used Qt on Rust though.
The documentation isn't perfect but its _really_ easy to map the documentation of the bindings to the original C documentation. From quick glance the situation seems to be more or less (maybe a bit less) the same with python bindings for Gtk.
I personally have enjoyed the gtk-rs bindings.
It is pretty trivial if you want to build an almost purely QML app. As soon as you want to do some C++ stuff (e.g. registering new C++ classes, using QtWidgets), however, things go south very quickly. The main problem is that Qt has its own ideas about ownership (QObject-parent-stuff), and Rust really does not like that. You end of working a lot with raw pointers and boxes. It feels like you’re writing C++ but in Rust (if that makes sense).
Rust-qt is really nice IMO, and I would extremely encourage anyone interested to take a look, and provide more feedbacks and contributions to the maintainers (I am not one of them). Some non-trivial examples would help a lot. But expect sharp edges.