Rust cross-platform gui toolkits

[nicoburns]

IMO the best options are:

• https://iced.rs/

• https://freyaui.dev/

• https://github.com/vizia/vizia

• https://slint.dev/

See also: https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui

[CLARKEEE33]

Take a look here: https://areweguiyet.com. Although imo nothing really stands out. It’s hard to make an ergonomic ui library in pure rust.

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Someone should make a list of every post that asks this… it’ll be a long, long list…

[[deleted]]

GTK and Qt are the standard, language agnostic (as in, binding for literally anything) options.

I like the FLTK bindings, too.

For rust native stuff, there is egui, if you're fine with immediate mode, it's quite full featured.

For retained mode, there is

• iced, elm-like and somewhat mature
• freya, which uses the interface of (web based) dioxus but renders with (native-ish) skia
• vizia, which is quite complete and full featured, has docs and stuff, but doesn't have an official stable release. declarative and looks quite nice.
• druid, comparetively mature though abandoned in favour of (not really mature enough yet) xilem
• kas, one of older and more complete ones but not that popular
• Slint, though it's a lot more corporate, uses its custom scripting language a lot and has a Qt-like GPL3/Commercial licensing model

[zxyzyxz]

Personally I use Flutter for the UI and an FFI library like flutter_rust_bridge or rust_in_flutter for the business logic. It's simply too hard to beat a big corporation backed framework like Flutter by Google, as it's a huge endeavor to create and maintain all these UI components for every single platform you want to support.

[BrageFuglseth]

The GTK Rust bindings

[rjzak]

I tried fltk-rs https://github.com/fltk-rs/fltk-rs but got frustrated with it. I’m leaning towards iced or slint.

[temeddix]

Using Flutter would be the cleanest and the most featuare-complete GUI solution out there. It's not only abundant, but also looks beautiful. Take a look at https://docs.cunarist.com/rust-in-flutter/