n1Jul 29, 2024

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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Show threadChris Cochrun ~ >Jul 29, 2024
@n1 I've built a relatively complex app using qt/qml combined with rust through #cxxqt. Its pretty good. Or #slint is basically the same but more rusty if you don't need to run a web view.
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@chriscochrun Qt is great, what a shame it cannot be utilized directly with Rust.

Slint is a whole another level of sorcery with their Slint language. Basically whole UI is one big macro.

Jul 30, 2024 at 6:13amWeb