gpui-component by Longbridge
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 25 of 45 GUI frameworks by recommenders
Recommended as a polished, shadcn-style widget library for building native desktop applications in Rust on GPUI.
Recommended as a polished, shadcn-style widget library for building native desktop applications in Rust on GPUI.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Best Rust GUI option currently
“IMO this is the best Rust GUI option at the moment”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework” “Definitely the best option today”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu” Easy native desktop GUI building
“The only Rust GUI library I found that could do this easily was gpui-component”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu” “the only Rust GUI library I found that could do this easily”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu” “that seems to finally open doors to have fully native guis that are polished enough for even commercial release”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu” Adds value to GPUI
“UI components for building fantastic desktop applications using GPUI.”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Zed is 1.0” “I think it adds so much value to GPUI”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “Electron vs. Tauri” Impressive, promising project
“that looks very promising indeed”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu” “It is very impressive IMO.”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu”
Other GUI frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other GUI frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qt | 191 | 133 | 59% | 12 | 15 yrs7 owners | — |
| GTK | 85 | 118 | 42% | 12 | — | — |
| Windows Forms | 76 | 33 | 70% | 12 | 15 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| SwiftUI | 75 | 121 | 38% | 11 | 4 yrs8 owners | — |
| gpui-component by LongbridgeThis page | 15 | 3 | 83% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
17 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I quite like gpui-kit (formerly gpui-component).”
“Check out: https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component”
“My current favourite is https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component”
“Longbridge's open source component library which provides a bunch of shadcdn-alike widgets that are really well implemented”
“almost certainly not compliant with the Zed license”
“UI components for building fantastic desktop applications using GPUI.”
“Not being able to load the component gallery does not inspire great confidence.”
“your binaries will become huge and very slow to compile with optimizations enabled”
“IMO this is the best Rust GUI option at the moment”
“Definitely the best option today”
“as gpui-component now exists”
“that looks very promising indeed”
“It is very impressive IMO.”
“The only Rust GUI library I found that could do this easily was gpui-component”
“the only Rust GUI library I found that could do this easily”
“that seems to finally open doors to have fully native guis that are polished enough for even commercial release”
“I think it adds so much value to GPUI”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.