GPUI

“build it using GPUI (amazing) and have been pretty happy with it so far.”

“Rust for desktop is good enough these days, with GPUI or iced”

“I had a great experience developing with it. My app starts up in ~200ms and uses ~75MB of RAM.”

“Rust + GPUI is becoming the new hotness, and I’m all up for it.”

“rewriting Codex Desktop in Rust using native desktop APIs (gpui) and have made a cross platform copy that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.”

“The "capability" layer is so thin that GPUI should be treated as a framework to build frameworks, not a standalone OOTB platform”

“the biggest problem is that GPUI's components seems to have no interacts”

“it's super smooth, the code is super easy to understand”

“I will continue spreading the good word of gpui, hopefully more people try it out”

“I love the idea of having this, in Rust, in a form where the hierarchy of nesting is type-enforced”

“isn't it kinda scary to write a lot of code on top of GPUI that's effectively only serving Zed?”

“It's remarkable to me that this web toolkit is atop GPUI, which is a native app rust toolkit!”

“Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.”

“I'm amazed stable and performant it's GPUI framework is”

“significantly faster and more lightweight than Electron”

“GPUI doesn't have accessibility support and isn't even targeted for anything but the text editor”

“But GPUI must be excellent for bigger projects where you need better architecture for components.”

“That one gets immediate cred for being demonstrated in a responsive program that demonstrates the range of its complexity.”

“GPUI is developed alongside Zed and thus features that aren't useful for Zed are sometimes left behind.”

“it is quite nice and it works well on all platforms, at least in my experience”

“a framework that Zed core team still feels to be not ready for a general release”

“the authors of gpui, the library that seems to have inspired gooey, apparently did a pretty great job”

“I hope GPUI will eventually become the go-to Rust GUI library”

“Clean and polished design, concise Tailwind-style API, and last but not least sustained 120 FPS across complex UI.”

“I wish GPUI could become the go-to Rust UI library and not just an editor backend”

“I've been hitting edge cases which would be solved by some of the PRs mentioned”

“they reject PRs because they're not strictly related to Zed”

“GPUI is definitely the future for high-performance desktop apps”

“GPUI is also abandoned as a separate non-Zed project, so unfortunately not that promising”

“I think it is pretty ok and cool that gpui just exports the tools to make whatever components you need.”

“Lots of gpui was built with build Zed/a text editor in mind directly”

“As far GPUI has a great foundation, the community can built the components themselves.”

“The only choice I have at the moment that would meet my needs is gpui”

“GPUI by nature is not that; it's a UI lib built to a practical and non-trivial purpose.”

“Zed has understandably and transparently abandoned supporting GPUI as an open source endeavour”

“the heavy lifting is UI lib from Zed. That is the real unlock in apps like this.”

“GPUI is a great example of the insane amount of boilerplate needed to create a component”

“GPUI is a wonderful, extremely fast, stable, perfect API. If you are making a cross-platform native text editor.”

“still AFAIK their documentation is not that great yet”

“the (absence of an) accessibility story made me grudgingly just use tauri”