THE VIDEO SHELF · rust gui architecture
Data Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust Meetup
Raph Levien presents his new Rust GUI framework, built on data-oriented design and ideas from entity component systems, for the Xi editor. He weighs the approach against alternatives and discusses pros and cons.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people point to it as an excellent, inspirational talk on Rust GUI architecture, and it led many to the Druid project.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Rust Programming Language
- Topic
- rust gui architecture
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I found this excellent talk to be complementary to my talk[1] on data-oriented GUI in Rust, not to plug my own work too much. I found a lot of common ground: * Trying to write object-oriented code in Rust doesn't work well. Writing data-oriented code …
raphlinus on Hacker News · 2018-09
In Using Rust for Game Development [video]As much as I like Dear ImGui, the immediate mode paradigm doesn't work everywhere. The problem of "page tearing" (not to be confused with vsync) means you either need to render frames continuously, or at least 2 frames for every time you get input or …
exDM69 on Hacker News · 2020-11
In Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
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