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dralley04/24/20253 repliesview on HN

Why is Qt the only option? Rust has plenty of suitable options. Slint is used in production and works on tiny embedded devices.


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jcelerier04/24/2025

I definitely had my eyes on slint for quite some time (pretty much since it was announced - I highly value the technical skill of their team) but it's still quite far from the whole QWidget offering. I don't know anything else that is even remotely in the same ballpark - certainly not Tauri or egui for instance. Anything that is GPU based is blacklisted from the get go (including QtQuick) - people who preach gpu based GUI have definitely never tried to have a quick debug feedback loop with an app built using AddressSanitizer where just opening the simplest GL or Vulkan context takes up to 20 seconds on a good day.

5d41402abc4b04/24/2025

Slint is not a replacement for Qt. Slint only provides a tiny fraction of what Qt has to offer https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/modules-cpp.html

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vhantz04/24/2025

Name one of those plenty suitable options rust have to replace something like Qt.

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