A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries(boringcactus.com)

18 points by figomore 1 year ago | 6 comments

vardump 1 year ago |

http://web.archive.org/web/20250414144348/https://www.boring...

To get around apparent vandalism…

znpy 1 year ago | |

it's no vandalism, it's done on purpose:

https://www.boringcactus.com/assets/site.js

    //     Never read Hacker News
    // - Aphyr, "Hexing the technical interview"
    if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")) {
        document.location = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fart.wav"
    }

this also mean that copying the link and pasting it in the address bar will get you no fart sound

childish behavior if you ask me

jogu 1 year ago | |

Yeah, clicking this link is causing my browser to download a "Human_fart.wav", not sure what it actually contains for obvious reasons.

dxxvi 1 year ago |

Wow, the author seems to have a lot of knowledge of what he's talking about. I know almost nothing about writing desktop apps and only a bit of Rust. So, I guess that if we need to choose a Rust gui library, we'll go with something that has "Yes" in all columns?

rc00 1 year ago | |

Or don't use Rust. There are better and more supported options if you don't try to force a language where it clearly doesn't belong.

tcfhgj 1 year ago | | |

Why would you say that?