Sauron-native
Languages and libraries
gui toolkit library
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good foundation feature set, TUI looks great
From 1 comment
This ui framework, if not abandoned by the tedium of win32 api integration, will make me sit up and actually try Rust for the first time. The TUI in particular looks great. 2020…
Multicomp on HN
Objections
Core architecture unfinished; win32 and macOS abstraction is the hard part
From 3 comments
These projects always stop (or make no useful progress) at the really difficult/tedious work of abstracting cocoa and win32 API.
rapsey on HNThis ui framework, if not abandoned by the tedium of win32 api integration, will make me sit up and actually try Rust for the first time. The TUI in particular looks great. 2020…
Multicomp on HNIt runs on wasm in a browser; not really mobile support. ...and the author is abandoning it to move on to other things? /shrug Didn’t solve any of the actually hard problems of a…
wokwokwok on HN
Wanting one look across platforms conflicts with native feel
From 2 comments
In that linked comment: > 2.1) I want to ship something that looks the same on Windows / Linux / MacOS As a user: No no no, please, no. I want apps to fit the look, feel, and…
Razengan on HNBack when I wrote the comment, I tried to make clear that there were two very important and very contradictory requirements : 1. it has to look and behave the same way everywhere…
phtrivier on HN
Requests
Support creating GUI from an existing window handle for plugin hosts
From 1 comment
Good to see more alternatives in this space. If I can make one big app design request it would be this: Don’t assume that apps can always create their own windows. This has been…
alkonaut on HN
Questions
Which HN sub-debate the project focuses on
From 1 comment
Which ones of the sub-debates did you focus on solving?
jacobush on HN
Alternatives named
gtk-rs
From 1 comment
For Rust programmers that want to write GUIs, I highly recommend gtk-rs. It does not have the easiest-to-read documentation in the world but it is a good wrapper of gtk and it…
whatshisface on HN
druid
From 1 comment
One of those efforts is druid. I'm deliberately choosing not to make a lot of noise on social media yet, but I suggest people actively looking for native GUI in Rust take a…
raphlinus on HN
libui
From 1 comment
I pimp this project any chance I get: https://github.com/andlabs/libui We're considering using it for the next generation of the ZeroTier desktop UI. Unfortunately no mobile…
api on HN
relm
From 1 comment
It still suffers a bit from ergonomics though, as all those macros on the samples for cloning widget data members into callbacks show. relm might be a much saner approach to…
pjmlp on HN