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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?

What's this blog post about?

Rust's unique memory management model and lack of inheritance make traditional techniques to build a UI framework difficult. However, the language's strong commitments to portability and performance, as well as its active ecosystem, make it a compelling choice for UI programming. Currently, there isn't a clear one-size-fits-all UI framework solution in Rust, but various approaches like Elm architecture, Entity-Component-System (ECS), immediate mode GUI, or even using the DOM to render while keeping application logic in Rust are being explored by developers.

Company
Warp

Date published
Feb. 14, 2023

Author(s)
Aloke Desai

Word count
2891

Hacker News points
111

Language
English


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