Robius: Immersive and Seamless Multiplatform App Development in Rust - Kevin Boos

Project Robius is a new community-driven framework that enables developers to create robust, efficient, and immersive applications in Rust that seamlessly run on many platforms, including desktop, mobile, and web. In this talk, we’ll describe our ongoing work to improve the Rust app dev experience, including a brief overview of key constituent projects like the Makepad UI toolkit and the Osiris project for abstracting platform APIs and OS services. We’ll also demonstrate some applications written using the Robius framework, namely Robrix, a new Matrix chat client app that runs on mobile and desktop. Finally, we'll conclude with a roadmap for our future technical plans, along with more info on how you can join the community and get involved in the world of Rust app dev.
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[@avwie132]

UI folks are accustomed to inheritance? Did you miss the whole declarative functional UI revolution of the last 8 years? React, Elm, Flutter, SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose?

[@joshuarowe8410]

Really interesting work.

[@CjqNslXUcM]

amazing work

Was this not published a long time ago already ?

[@rustnederlandrustnl]

The Video or the Framework?

[@KevinBoosPhD]

I gave a talk introducing the vision for this project back in September 2023, at GOSIM in Shanghai. But that was just a vision -- this is the first talk with actual code/content and working demos.

[@johnyepthomi892]

Please do not use WebKit on Linux. I don’t know if it does but that’s one huge drawback of Tauri framework. I feel like a cave man using WebKit.

[@KevinBoosPhD]

hah, don't worry -- we definitely don't have any web engines in the system stack!

[@johnyepthomi892]

@@KevinBoosPhD awesome. I should check it out then. You should use this a a selling point as well too. Many would give it more attention. Very hopeful for this project.