For some reason, it seems popular for GUI crates to use the GPU. I just want to make simple widgets, for like a calculator.

No fancy graphics. I want it quite lightweight.

For some reason, popular GUI crates love to do everything through a GPU, which bumps up the memory / cpu use significantly.

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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Funny you should mention that. I think iced as of four days ago can do this!

If I'm reading the release notes and Cargo.toml right, cargo add iced --no-default-features and you should be good to go, as tiny-skia will be used as a rendering backend instead of wgpu.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    OMG, thank you! I have been using Iced. My simple application's RAM just went down from 80 MB to only 4 MB.

    The executable size went down from about 8 MB to 2.5 MB

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