Comment by jenadine
2 days ago
Really cool to see a native app instead of another Electron or browser-based tool.
I'm curious what was your experience like building this in Rust? Also, how did you find working with egui, what made you choose egui over other UI frameworks?
Agreed! I don't think lawyers would have accepted an Electron alternative to super fast Word. Rust gives the raw speed and safety necessary to compete.
It's my first Rust project, and I've found Rust to be amazing once you cross over the learning hurdle. The biggest issue was of course the borrow checker, but for a project like this where you aren't really iterating much on the design (as opposed to say a game dev), it lets you fly. It saves you from all the big mistakes and allows you to comfortably use threads and things. No idea how I would have made it without rust_analyzer, though.
Egui was simple to get going, while it has some downsides being an immediate mode UI, those are mostly overcome by the caching necessary for rendering documents, etc.
why you choose egui or you just choose based on what you commonly used??
I had been messing around with Imgui relatively recently and enjoyed the simplicity. Prior to that I was doing stuff with React which is kind of the polar opposite and found that to be super laborious. So when I saw egui, I jumped at the chance.