waterui is the most promising Rust GUI framework for building truly native applications across mobile and desktop platforms without relying on custom renderers like skia,... I don't think I need to learn Kotlin or Swift anymore.

GH: https://github.com/water-rs/waterui

Page: https://waterui.dev/

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love to see GUIs that aren't immediate mode

You will be disappointed

Thanks for sharing. It looks interesting, but Windows and Linux is not supported as far as I can see…

Also, I really don’t like Rust. It just doesn’t look very nice 😬

I’m currently building a notes app for macOS and I’m starting to get a pretty good grasp on AppKit, and UIKit is similar, so should be fairly easy.

I expect Jetpack Compose to also be easy from the example code I’ve seen. It also looks really nice, so I’m excited to learn that. Kotlin is basically Java which I already know well.

I feel like there’s always shortcomings with the crossplatform frameworks, unfortunately…

and it's build by a high school kid. God I feel old. Time for the new generation.

sadly he didn't have much resource for desktop native ui, just focus on mobile for now.