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Are people making user facing apps in rust with GUIs?
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allreduce • yesterday at 3:36 PM
Usually it does not reduce latency but increases throughput.
Multithreading is an invaluable tool when actually using your computer to crunch numbers (scientific computing, rendering, ...).
tcfhgj • yesterday at 3:03 PM
> Are people making user facing apps in rust with GUIs?
yes
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> Are people making user facing apps in rust with uis?
We are talking not only about Rust, but also about C and C++. There are lots of C++ UI applications. Rust poses itself as an alternative to C++, so it is definitely intended to be used for UI applications too - it was created to write a browser!
At work I am using tools such as uv [1] and ruff [2], which are user-facing (although not GUI), and I definitely appreciate a 16x speedup if possible.
[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
[2]https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff