I gave myself a goal to write a #rustlang GUI app that does following:
1. app pops up as text input where you enter a query
2. app seeks the query on Wikipedia and shows combo box with possible Wikipedia pages
3. you choose and hit enter
4. app fetches summary (forst paragraph(s)) and displays the text under combo box
a) GTK - mature but total mess and sorcery
b) equi - very early, widget poor
c) iced -very early, lacks docs, but doable
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I realized that Rust and decent GUI doesn't exist yet. The projects lack changelogs, tutorials, good docs, migration guides. When I updated Iced 0.10 - 0.12 the app completely broke. No migration notes, no changelog with noteds. Even such small thing as programmatically focusing a text input is gone now. So - TUI:
d) ratatui - very early, lacks detailed docs, still dont know how to create a text input
e) no UI - a prompt, select "widget" (inquire crate), pure output - BOOM, done
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