Has anyone here ever tried using Rust’s Qt or GTK bindings, or another library, to make a complex GUI beyond a few simple forms or dialog boxes? I keep hearing that the language’s architecture makes it really hard to do any sort of advanced GUI development on it, but what’s the actual experience like? How would you compare it to say, native Qt or GTK using C++/C respectively, or things like JavaFX or Flutter? Maybe even the .NET Framework or whatever Apple uses for their platform? Would you actually recommend Rust over any of those?

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    2 years ago

    I’ve only played around with some, but my personal favorite was iced. The GTK and QT binding frameworks seemed overly complex for 99% of use cases.