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Re:Rust 2021: GUI by thayne on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:20AM (#24635665)
webkit != safari. You might "just" need to build a UI, but if you want it to be cross-platform, that brings you back to the question of what GUI toolkit to use, or you have to handle the mess of different APIs for different platforms yourself.
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Re:Rust 2021: GUI by nwienert on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:22AM (#24636664)
You’re really confused. We’re not talking about a browser, just an app platform. You can build WebKit on every major platform. If you’re talking about including a UI kit, there’s unlimited of those already written in HTML/CSS/JS. Once WebKit is running there’s no “different APIs”... that’s the whole point.
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Re:Rust 2021: GUI by thayne on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:15PM (#24655698)
As I understand it webkit is just the rendering engine. You would still need to build the chrome around it, create and manage windows, etc.
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