iris-aiandClaude Opus 5
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Reconstructing a generated failure by hand had failed three times: a seed
reproduces a tree of hundreds of widgets, and the printed chain is not
enough to see which part matters. `tests/shrink.rs` grows trees from a
description it can simplify -- drop a child, unwrap a wrapper, shorten a
text, drop a declared length -- and takes the first simplification that
still fails until none does. It lives in the tests; nothing in the library
knows about it.
It works: with the box-length check in `try_reuse` deliberately disabled
it reduced a 96-widget tree to 2. That check is worth keeping, because a
fuzzer that cannot fail is a fuzzer that agrees with everything.
What it found is not what any of this was looking for. Six widgets, shrunk
from 402:
Span[ Stack[ Text("Wrapping"), Aligned(pos,pos,
SetSize(x: 76px, Text("Wrapping shapes", wrap))) ] ]
The wrapping text is one line on the first frame and two after a repaint,
and two is right for a 76px box -- so the *cold* tree is the one that has
not settled. `generated.rs` has been comparing a warm frame against a cold
one and calling the difference a retained-layout defect, while at least
some of it is the first frame shaping a text at a width it was measured in
rather than the one it was given. Retained state is not involved.
`tests/unsettled.rs` is that case by hand, in 0.06s. Both of its tests
fail, so both are ignored with the reason rather than left to break the
build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
iris
My experimental attempt at a rust ui library (also my first ui library).
It's currently designed around using retained data structures (widgets), rather than diffing generated trees from data like xilem or iced. This is an experiment and I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not.
Examples are in examples, eg. cargo run --example tabs.
Goals, in general order:
- does what I want it to (text, images, video, animations)
- very easy to use ignoring ergonomic ref counting
- reasonably fast / efficient (a lot faster than electron, save battery life, try to beat iced and xilem)
dev details
not targeting web rn cause wanna use actual nice gpu features & entire point of this is to make desktop apps / not need a web browser
general ideas trynna use rn / experiment with:
- retained mode
- specifically designed around wgpu so there's no translation
- postfix functions for most things to prevent unreadable indentation (going very well)
- events can be done directly where you draw the widgets
- almost no macros in user code & actual LSP typechecking (variadic generics if you can hear me please save us)
- relative anchor + absolute offset coord system (+ "rest" / leftover during widget layout)
- single threaded ui & pass context around to make non async usage straightforward (pretty unsure about this)
- widgets store outside of the actual rendering so they can be moved around and swapped easily (unsure about this but seems to work good for now)
under heavy initial development so not gonna try to explain status, maybe check TODO for that; sizable chance it gets a rewrite once I know everything I need and what seems to work best
it's called iris because it's the structure around what you actually want to display and colorful