After digging around a bit yesterday trying to assess the current state of affairs in rust gui development, I found this. So now I’m wondering if there is any reason not to just invest in making integration between rust and qt as seamless as possible? I mean, qt is already well established, qml is really nice, it works pretty much everywhere , theyre even working on wasm support.
Is there some sort of technical merit that I am unaware of or simply too ignorant to understand in creating a new ui framework for rust from scratch as opposed to just making rust <–> qt interop as idiomatic as possible from the rust developers’ perspective?
For instance, after watching this video, It’s clear that while this approach to using qt with rust can work, there are still holes that need to be filled to make typical development easier, things like making the lib macro based, better integration with cargo, etc.
As I said before, I’m definitely not a gui programmer, so I’d love to be better informed on the pros and cons of this approach so I can understand why or why not it may be suitable. At this point, it seems like the easiest approach though, I’m just wondering why it doesn’t seem to be being taken into consideration? I mean, it worked for python.