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# iris
my take on a rust ui library (also my first ui library)
My experimental attempt at a rust ui library (also my first ui library).
it's called iris because it's the structure around what you actually want to display and colorful
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.
there's a `main.rs` that runs a testing window, so can just `cargo run` to see it working
There's a `main.rs` that runs a testing window, so you can just `cargo run` to see it working.
goals, in general order:
Goals, in general order:
1. does what I want it to (text, images, video, animations)
2. very easy to use ignoring ergonomic ref counting
3. reasonably fast / efficient (a lot faster than electron, save battery life)
not targeting web rn cause wanna use actual nice gpu features & entire point of this is to make desktop apps
## 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
- 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)
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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