Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it for the live-coded demos running at high frame rates, calling the performance impressive.
What it is
Rik Arends presents Makepad, a Rust UI framework, at RustNL 2023. The talk covers designing modern, GPU-fast UIs with Rust and includes live-coded demos of an IDE and a synthesizer.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2023 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec rapnie · 2023-08 · on “Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers”
> if anyone tells you they need to use WebAssembly to make the UI snappy I'd advise you interrogate that assertion thoroughly. Get prepared to be blown away by Makepad [0]. I have no affiliation with them, but just watched their most recent conference presentation [1]. The slides were made with Makepad itself and included, embedded, a full-blown IDE, a synthesizer app, a Mandelbrot to zoom in endlessly, and more. All running at 120fps. The presentation is for the most part live-coding with this setup. What they want to do is bring coders and designers closer together, and while some code is in Rust they developed a DSL for the GUI parts that is close to how Figma works. These GUI's can run a
Recommends rvdca · 2023-07 · on “Makepad- Synthesizer Written in Rust”
For anyone interested, the main author (if I understood properly) did a presentation at RustNL on the UI aspect that was quite impressive performance wise : [this video]
Cites djhn · 2024-08 · on “Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework”
I’ve been super interested in zoomable interfaces for text - there was an interesting demo in a rust conference talk: [this video] (skip to 14:45 to see it in action)