Xilem: Let's Build High Performance Rust UI - Raph Levien

[@isaactfa]

He's really Donald Knuth-ing it.

[@SameerAhmed4776]

When will Xilem be suitable for use in building Android applications?

[@dbug64]

How many UI frameworks has Raph now started? :^) Are they connected to each other somehow? Or are we(Rust community) still searching for the best way to do non-OO UI in Rust?

[@DavidSchmitt]

I'd expect the number of projects to consolidate as people are figuring out what does work and start focusing on higher levels (like how many projects are already building on top of winit)

[@dbug64]

@@DavidSchmitt Even if it's fragmented I find this exploration very interesting in many ways. Like you point out, winit is used a lot, accessabilitykit too. I read that someone experimented with using the async paradigm as a base for UI. The immediate UI's feels like a functional approach, given a state, create the UI from it.

[@DavidSchmitt]

@@dbug64 I also expect that basic infrastructure libraries like winit have a lot less integration concerns with the higher level frameworks compared to e.g. widget libraries

[@khai96x]

JS/TS has capabilities to do OOP-based UI, but most UI frameworks still chose the declarative model (React-like).

[@irlshrek]

super cool!

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

22:00 can I get "Geometry is easy if all children are same height" on a t-shirt please

[@AnchorTech_0]

Any Tutorials ?

[@akithered]

This is the talk he's referring to at RustLab kzbin.info/www/bejne/o566kIWYid6dbsU

[@avwie132]

Weird that Google is funding it with their 100% commitment to Jetpack Compose

[@faisalxd369]

The work they're doing is not tied to Xilem and the performance benefits can be easily brought to other UI toolkits (namely Jetpack Compose).

[@simpingsyndrome]

ok bagus

[@pookiepats]

dude another one... 4 more years of hype and abandoned repos, rust doing their best OCAML impression

[@GigachadRustacean-lu8bo]

another project that google will start and killed at some point in time

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

at least as an (open-source?) project it doesn't cease to exist when google lose interest

[@DavoGalavotti]

I love the idea, I hate the name.