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Window handling library in pure Rust

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-07-26 · latest 2025-12-22

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  1. …We're just waiting on Winit to do a new release and then we can integrate it into Dioxus. [0]: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/3824 )
    comment by nicoburns · 2024-12-12 · in Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust
  2. …(Rust-based) supports rust-windowing/winit apps, which compile to a <canvas> tag in WASM. > winit: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit - "Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245897 -…
    comment by westurner · 2024-06-14 · in Industry forms consortium to drive adoption of Rust in safety-critical systems
  3. …think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges. [1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
    comment by alokedesai · 2024-02-22 · in Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
  4. …think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges. [1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
    comment by alokedesai · 2024-02-22 · in Linux version of Warp terminal is here
  5. …DE (Rust-based) supports rust-windowing/winit apps, which compile to a <canvas> tag in WASM. winit: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit
    comment by westurner · 2024-01-04 · in Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
  6. …to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have: - https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation) - https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-03 · in XUL Layout is gone
  7. …library ended up implementing their own client-side decorations rendering that imitates GTK: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/2263 . And if every framework / app is doing this in their own subtly different way then the result…
    comment by kettlecorn · 2022-10-11 · in Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
  8. …of Druid. https://github.com/lapce/druid which replaces the window management to use winit instead https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit and a self-written wgpu backend hooked with druid. https://github.com/lapce/piet-wgpu For xi, it…
    comment by dzhou121 · 2021-12-14 · in Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
  9. …is great, but wgpu isn't a substitute for SDL. The Rust project that replaces SDL is called winit https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit One can use wgpu with winit (which is more common) or, if they prefer, wgpu with sdl2. Here is an…
    comment by nextaccountic · 2021-11-13 · in SDL gets an Epic MegaGrant to work on next-gen Vulkan API
  10. I know this one hit quite a few people: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/issues/1773 . Compiles on new rustc but panics at runtime. API churn also made upgrading to a new winit painful.
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2021-03-19 · in The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability
  11. …a snag for winit and several others. Allow creating a GUI given an existing window handle. See e.g. https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/issues/159 If you create a rust ui framework that supports the VST windowing/event loop model and…
    comment by alkonaut · 2019-07-26 · in Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust