Re:Rust: State of GUI, December 2022
by smoldesu on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:33PM
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Maybe Apple should write libraries for their GUI toolkits, then. It's awfully hard to beg people to write native apps for you when people need to learn a new language to do it.
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And when that new language is Swift. Coming from Rust Swift is hard to take.
Re:Rust: State of GUI, December 2022
by smoldesu on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:58PM
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That's more-or-less what I'm getting at. Apple can't replace Objective-C with Swift and expect people to not cock their head. They can either support a pre-existing language (like Microsoft with Rust) or home-bake something suitable for low-level development. Telling developers to not use the stuff they want to use sorta leaves their hands tied.
Microsoft's Rust support is basically non-existing for GUI applications, Rust/WinRT is miles away from achiving C++/WinRT parity, even more so with C#.
In its current state is only useful for CLI or services, unless you feel like doing WinUI team's work for free.