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Does anyone have experience using Slint do develop GUI in Rust?

GUI in Rust is a hot topic, and to me it seems SlintUI may be the best general-purpose so far. The reason is rapid iteration and a flexible/intuitive layout system: Slint lets you write UI in a DSL with live preview and style/layout influenced by HTML and CSS, whereas competitors (egui, druid, iced) require you to write the GUI in Rust (which means you must rebuild and rerun to see changes) and have their own style/layout rules. Other competitors are GTK and Qt, but those have their own flaws and moreover, were designed way before Rust and seem to be less "idiomatic".

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We are developing UI in slint-rs for our product. Our eventiual target is IoT devices (cyber defense) though we are starting with desktops. We are a young startup and our experience is very limited in UI space so please take all of it with a pinch of salt.

One of our intern got the UI working with Slint in a few days and since then we didn't feel a strong need to move away from it. We found a few missing features: it was not possible to tell if a Windows is hidden or not. We ended up sending a few patches.

So far our experience has been pretty good with slint-ui. We are not tested the UI on OSX and Linux yet, only windows. On AWS machines with Windows server, the UI fails to launch sometimes because of some missing GL libraries. Also note the licensing of Slint-UI https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/discussions/379.

Wow that linked request is really something. Requesting/Suggesting the change of license is one thing. But this is just another example of a blatant lack of respect towards open source devs and maintainers.

The misinformed GPL hatred displayed there is also ridiculous.

Could you name, specifically, the true things they do not know or the false things that they think they know? Or is 'misinformed' here simply a way of saying that you disagree, and have no such preference for people not requiring you to license your own code a certain way?

It's not about whether it is true or not.

Requesting a license change from a project that you are not a primary maintainer is more than a little rude.

However, continuing to request a license change even after the owners have explained why they chose the license is an astonishing level of entitlement.

If you don't like the license, don't use the project. That's the deal--take it or leave it.

"Misinformed" is, in fact, about whether something is true.

I use GTK3 with Rust for my video acquisition tool [1] and it's been quite pleasant so far. However, from my testing GTK3 & 4 don't play nice with OpenGL drawing areas, so the next project I'm writing (also in Rust) using Dear ImGUI.

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/vidoxide

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