What does HackerNews think of Akira?

Just paying Figma because nothing else works | Oct 2023

I really wish Akira (https://github.com/akiraux/Akira) had worked out :/

Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust | Jul 2021

That blog is just one developer's opinion, not an official statement. Although I will say I share the opinion, Glade messes up my ui files and I can't recommend using it if you want to use any newer widgets. It has always had those problems, but now with GTK4 it's no longer really worth it to try to work around them.

Also, Glade is not really even used by GNOME designers that much, what they do is make mockups in some other tool (usually Inkscape) and then have the developers implement it. I don't know about other GTK based desktops, though I think some Elementary developers are working on this: https://github.com/akiraux/Akira

I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there | Apr 2021

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https://github.com/akiraux/Akira

Do you really want Linux phones | Mar 2021

I want a linux phone. But you know what I want first?

I want a Visual Studio level IDE that I can develop Linux GUI application in. GTK is an amazing piece of software, and there are some beyond amazing GTK based applications that I found and started using.

As someone who has not done linux GUI development before, the biggest issue is getting started. Android has first class development support, and so does iOS. Linux has Glade for GTK and QtCreator for QT apps.

Vala is an amazing first step, and the code makes design & development super easy. But there is still a disconnect between design and development that hinders adoption. If there was a nice "all in one" application where development can be done like. You could see the hype, and then disappointment, when https://github.com/akiraux/Akira was announced and it looked like such an IDE. But alas.

The Rust GTK Bindings also look really good, but I think the biggest hurdle that needs to be overcome is making Glade either more user friendly and making it tie into an IDE like Builder, or have an IDE like IntelliJ support it.

Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur? | Nov 2020

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I only heard of Akira. Put I'm not sure it will hit production state at any point as it never reached its crowdfunding financing goals.

https://github.com/akiraux/Akira

UXBOX, the open-source solution for design and prototyping | Jul 2020

there is also https://github.com/akiraux/Akira , still in early development

The future of design tools | Mar 2020

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There's a huge gap for a good UX design app in the Linux world. I hope Akira[0] can fill it, but I find for web stuff, with the right prototyping setup and frameworks, I can build stuff very rapidly to test out.

[0] https://github.com/akiraux/Akira