egui

“I do not think we should put up barriers in our application between OSs”

“Isn't egui really cpu inefficient though? It repaints at 60fps if e.g. you move the mouse over it”

“It's cross platform and excellent, and if you give it design constraints it will look beautiful.”

“But it has never limited me, and have written some complex UIs with integrated 3D etc.”

“The choice to re-implement native widgets from scratch is justifiable if the egui devs think they can do better”

“Otherwise its quirks are too annoying for general purpose app usage.”

“egui is a terrible choice for web. Everything is rendered in a canvas, so accessibility and extensibility is thrown out of the window.”

“This feels like it would be an accessibility nightmare?”

“it's written in Rust and only updates when you interact with it so in practice it's way more efficient than I would have expected”

“egui is very neat indeed. With agentic coding, Rust UI dev is as easy as electron dev without the bloat.”

“The development of the 'egui' immediate-mode graphics framework made it possible to make one with an advanced interactive debugger.”

“I can write one using Qt, EGUI, etc (Or many other options), and it will just work on Windows, Mac, Linux/Wayland, and Linux/X.”

“some UI frameworks implemented (including immediate mode egui)”

“significantly faster and more lightweight than Electron”

“Even egui/etc aren't truly immediate as they need to keep some sort of stable identity”

“Equi win with the less amount of code required for most things.”

“egui has recently revamped text rendering, looks much better than it did just a few months ago”

“Historically, syncing winit, EGUI, WGPU, the binder between GPU and EGUI, and EGUI libs like for file dialogs has been a pain.”

“it looks pretty terrible (poor font rendering especially), and immediate mode has serious downsides”

“egui is, however, one of the most reliable paths in Rust today for building and shipping a desktop app.”

“egui is the clear winner for making desktop applications”

“It's going to use more CPU (and battery power), there can be jitter and things shifting after the initial rendering”

“I would strongly prefer something more lightweight like Slint, Iced or egui”

“Arbitrary text selection also is not possible, which is something I really value about egui.”

“desktop frameworks have been getting really good these days”

“It's quite polished nowadays although it misses in some areas.”

“I really enjoyed it, but I remember I stumbled across some issues”

“I can write a reasonably complex GUI with Rust and egui and OpenGL”

“things can get out of hand if you wait too long between updates though!”

“While egui solves the "draw widgets" part of building out the application”

“doesn't render very nicely and some of the APIs are amateurish, but it's quick and it works”

“Even egui, the UI toolkit I've been using, seems simpler and easier to work with than QT or GTK”

“egui redraws every frame, which makes state management simpler (no callback hell).”

“egui is great for rapid development but has limitations”

“egui is fantastic for rapid prototyping - immediate mode makes state management simple.”

“build a custom text editor widget to unlock features egui's TextEdit blocks”

“since it solves the widget problem well in an easy-to-use package”

“I'm generally liking egui but have just recently been using it”

“The performance story isn't great, layout options is terrible (largely due to being immediate mode)”

“I love EGUI, but need to do a proper comparison; could be missing out.”