▲ 80 ▼ Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by folak@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) I would disadvise Rust for (most) desktop apps. There aren't any GUI libraries yet, and the Qt bindings aren't beginner-friendly yet. Unless you just meant headless desktop apps, in which case Rust is my goto permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) There’s Tauri. Basically Electron with Rust instead of Node. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago You can make an app with Tauri without writing a single line of Rust though. Tauri lets you trigger most native functionality you might need from the JavaScript side. If that's enough for what you are building then you don't need to write any Rust. You could use a Rust web framework that compiles to WebAssembly, but you could also just use React or Svelte or whatever else. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago There’s Tauri. ...and now your newbie has to onboard onto not only Rust (?!) but also HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to render "Hello World". permalink fedilink source parent [–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago There are GUI libraries. I personally use iced a lot. Even if it's not v1.0 yet, it has many features. There are also bindings for other more common libraries such as GTK, QT and imgui. There's also egui as a native rust alternative to imgui. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) There’s Tauri. Basically Electron with Rust instead of Node. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago You can make an app with Tauri without writing a single line of Rust though. Tauri lets you trigger most native functionality you might need from the JavaScript side. If that's enough for what you are building then you don't need to write any Rust. You could use a Rust web framework that compiles to WebAssembly, but you could also just use React or Svelte or whatever else. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago There’s Tauri. ...and now your newbie has to onboard onto not only Rust (?!) but also HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to render "Hello World". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago You can make an app with Tauri without writing a single line of Rust though. Tauri lets you trigger most native functionality you might need from the JavaScript side. If that's enough for what you are building then you don't need to write any Rust. You could use a Rust web framework that compiles to WebAssembly, but you could also just use React or Svelte or whatever else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago There’s Tauri. ...and now your newbie has to onboard onto not only Rust (?!) but also HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to render "Hello World". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago There are GUI libraries. I personally use iced a lot. Even if it's not v1.0 yet, it has many features. There are also bindings for other more common libraries such as GTK, QT and imgui. There's also egui as a native rust alternative to imgui. permalink fedilink source parent