Conrod – A Rust GUI Library

I have mixed feelings about this.<p>On one hand, I&#x27;m enthused that Rust, arguably the only serious contender to C++&#x27;s throne, is gaining traction.<p>On the other hand, I&#x27;m scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered &quot;obsolete&quot; by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it&#x27;s C++.<p>It&#x27;s not like C++ is going anywhere anytime soon, (Some serious infrastructure reportedly still runs on COBOL after all!) but what if we could finally settle down on a technology for a certain kind of problem and focus <i>all</i> our energy on building new stuff? Wouldn&#x27;t that be <i>grand</i>?<p>I wonder whether there&#x27;s another industry that keeps reinventing itself every 20 to 30 years and still gets away with it.

I had to look up what &quot;immediate mode&quot; means -- <a href="http://sol.gfxile.net/imgui/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sol.gfxile.net&#x2F;imgui&#x2F;</a> discussion at <a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4561" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambda-the-ultimate.org&#x2F;node&#x2F;4561</a><p>Add to <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Community-libraries#gui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Community-libraries#g...</a> ?

The more I hear about Rust, the happier I get. It&#x27;s an amazing language and a platform and the more adoption it gets, the higher the chances for me also get to one day use it at work and that&#x27;s what I really want, honestly!

It&#x27;s inspiring to see developers willing to port non-trivial C++ projects over to Rust. The more pioneers are willing to lay critical groundwork like this the more promise I see in Rust for the immediate future.

It seems odd that he says Conrod has draw signatures that are &quot;concise&quot; and gives an example with 11 arguments. Perhaps some of these parameters should be wrapped in a struct?

Pretty sweet looking. After seeing the Envelope A&#x2F;B widgets, I thought &quot;wonder if this was made for the purpose of a UI for a software synthesis library?&quot; And sure enough, it was :) Is the synthesis package open source (or going to be)? EDIT: nvm, found it: <a href="https://github.com/mitchmindtree/rust-dsp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitchmindtree&#x2F;rust-dsp</a><p>Glad to see Rust getting more traction. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of the syntax, and I&#x27;m personally putting my chips in the purely-functional space--but it&#x27;s the most promising as far as a practical C++ replacement with much better semantics, which is sorely needed.

Isn&#x27;t using immediate mode going to make implementing more complex widgets like multi-line text-edits with selection and style, and more importantly tree controls with collapsed&#x2F;expanded persistent state that lazily load children (or only display items that are visible in the active view area) more difficult?

Does anyone has the same thought with me? The complexity of Rust is close to C++ and around equal to Java.And as many people&#x27;s tought, if you don&#x27;t advocate to use the GC, are there any reason to use a language which is no-simple and not faster than C++????

Is there any word from Mozilla on their position for an official UI toolkit for Rust?<p>I am past caring if it is a totally native looking toolkit, just as long as it looks good&#x2F;consistent across all platforms with hardware acceleration I am good to go.

Last time I checked this was the main thing that was missing for Go (a complete, multi platform GUI lib). Has there anything like this arisen yet? Some quick googling points to Gothic, which sounds promising.

Is there any plan to abstract away the need to handle drawing the widgets yourself, and provide layout functionality?

This is amazing, especially for only being two weeks old. I played around with Rust back when it was 0.10 (is it still?), and it&#x27;s an awesome language. I can&#x27;t wait to see this stuff get more advanced. Great work!

Super cool! Very impressive that this all came together in such a short amount of time. Having &quot;real-world&quot; projects like this in Rust is essential, and this library looks great, so kudos.

Kudos to you! Let us put the scourge that is C++ to rest.

I must say, very very efficient on my teeny processor.

Is there any project in Rust that is deployed even in dev environments?