What does HackerNews think of egui?

Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data | Oct 2023

The creator of Rerun (Emil Ernerfeldt) also created egui [1], an immediate GUI library for Rust. The library is similar to Dear ImGui but it is written in Rust and can be used for desktop and web apps (compiles to WASM and uses WebGL, demo [2]). Desktop apps can target OpenGL (does not display correct colors on macOS, does not work in VirtualBox on Windows) or WGPU (uses native APIs for each platform, works without any problems, but the binary is a big larger).

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui [2] https://www.egui.rs/

Textual Web: TUIs for the Web | Sep 2023

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> [...] you can build UIs that are snappy and keyboard driven.

That's not an advantage that is exclusive to TUIs; after all, you're running your TUI inside a graphical application that emulates a terminal. (Unless you're rocking an actual VT102, in which case I bow down to you.)

In fact there's an entire class of applications that are extremely snappy and keyboard driven, by their very nature: games.

Some people have taken to writing GUI apps like you'd write a game, and the effects range from OK to fantastic. Check out Lagrange (https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/), AppManager (https://tildegit.org/solene/AppManager), Dear ImGUI (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui), egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui), and many others.

My Journey Away from the JAMstack | Jul 2023

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Honestly, frontend development especially with all these crowded frameworks and libraries always confused me so pardon my ignorance, which is why in a project I’m working on right now I’m trying not to use js, instead I’m using egui [1]

Zola is a static site generator and it’s crazy fast, using one binary only [2], also there’s Blades [3], same concept but supposedly faster, never tried it though.

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui

[2] https://www.getzola.org

[3] https://getblades.org

Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS | Mar 2023

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Not true, even if you add Rust. egui was released earlier: https://github.com/emilk/egui

And egui isn't tied to Apple proprietary frameworks.

GPU-Backed User Interfaces | Feb 2023

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That's a good point. So up to which abstraction level would you consider "GPU-Backed UI" to be the right term? Looks like it doesn't end with low level APIs like OpenGL as the article also mentions e.g. the rust framework https://github.com/emilk/egui

Where to draw the line?

Ask HN: If Dart can do it, then why can't Rust? | Jan 2023

Here is my favorite Rust GUI library: https://github.com/emilk/egui

There are many other nice Rust GUI libraries depending on your needs:

https://www.areweguiyet.com/

Rich Text Editor for React | Jun 2022

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We already have egui which is pretty awesome.

Not great for accessibility though (yet)

https://github.com/emilk/egui

Bevy 0.7: data oriented game engine built in Rust | Apr 2022

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The largest "game" that I'm aware of is a piece of closed source CAD software [0]. They've been thrilled with the performance and ergonomics of the code, although they're relying on egui [1] for the UI.

As to scale, they crunch absolutely absurd amounts of data, seem to have an impressive amount of functionality, and are regularly hiring new folks from the community onto their team.

[0]: https://www.foresightmining.com/ [1]: https://github.com/emilk/egui

Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team) | Dec 2021

Why not use egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui) instead of making your own?