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Can you compare it with GTK bindings for Rust?

I'm a big fan of QML, but I've avoided Qt on Rust for some time due to poor experiences with earlier bindings a while ago.

At the time, using GTK, imgui, etc were a bit friendlier on Rust than Qt. Hoping this has changed.

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Sorry, no experience there but it's possible that just for big screens, GTK might beat Qt ... (I think KDE also supports the "legacy" Qt + Rust option in some way ...)

But my point was mainly about the (almost) impossibility of building a well functioning cross platform UI kit. I honestly believe that effort should not be spent in that direction when a reasonably open source and well functioning option already exists.

I find QML satisfactory for big screens. Made an app back in Qt5 and my main dev machine was a 4K, 43 inch LCD TV -- it did fine on the big screen. No limitations in that regard that I could see.

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