irisandClaude Opus 5
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Iris's call, after the guest measurement: the emulator is a GLES rig and nothing chases hardware Vulkan in it; the Vulkan path is covered by the desktop build and by her phone. Nothing had to be forced. The emulator has no hardware Vulkan at all -- its only Vulkan is SwiftShader in software -- and its GLES is the host's real RX 7900 XT through virgl at ES 3.1, so iris's existing runtime fallback lands there by itself. Verified end to end with an ordinary debug APK: "no Backends(VULKAN|...) adapter on this device, falling back to GLES", then "Android Emulator OpenGL ES Translator (virgl (AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT ...)) (Gl, OpenGL ES 3.1 ...) on Backends(GL)". So the emulator and the phone run the same binary, differing only in what it finds -- which is the point, and `force-gles` must not be reintroduced to arrange the emulator's backend. What changed: - The Android renderer logs the full adapter line at startup, as the desktop already did. Only the backend enum was logged, which cannot tell `Gl` on the host's GPU from `Gl` on SwiftShader; the same rule was written on one member of the pair and not the other. - `run-bench.sh` prints that line before any number. - build-apk.sh, Cargo.toml and RUST.md's "Vulkan in the emulator" carried the stale premise that the emulator defaults to software Vulkan and has to be steered off it. The recipes are marked superseded rather than deleted, since the record of why host Vulkan is unavailable is still worth having. - Drive-by: an `#[allow]`-free clippy warning in android/platform.rs (useless JObject conversion) that only appears on the android target. No Vulkan requirement was found in iris itself to remove: neither backend asks for a feature, `device_limits()` stays at wgpu's defaults with the compute fields zeroed, and both probe rather than expect an adapter. 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