No the question is why you would use a systems language that necessarily lacks certain ergonomics such as automated garbage collection, for writing GUIs.
Why is automatic garbage collection necessary for UI? I’ve been writing UI apps for 25 years without using a garbage collector. In any case, the borrow checker often (though not always) obviates the need for garbage collection at all.
This is a good summary of the problem with rust I think:
> Pretty much all UI can be modeled as a tree–or more abstractly as a graph. A tree is a natural way to model UI: it makes it easy to compose different components together to build something that is visually complicated. It’s also been one of most common ways to model UI programming since at least the existence of HTML, if not earlier.
> UI in Rust is difficult because it's hard to share data across this component tree without inheritance. Additionally, in a normal UI framework there are all sorts of spots where you need to mutate the element tree, but because of Rust’s mutability rules, this "alter the tree however you want" approach doesn't work.[1]
No the question is why you would use a systems language that necessarily lacks certain ergonomics such as automated garbage collection, for writing GUIs.
That makes no sense to me either, to be honest.
Why is automatic garbage collection necessary for UI? I’ve been writing UI apps for 25 years without using a garbage collector. In any case, the borrow checker often (though not always) obviates the need for garbage collection at all.
This is a good summary of the problem with rust I think:
> Pretty much all UI can be modeled as a tree–or more abstractly as a graph. A tree is a natural way to model UI: it makes it easy to compose different components together to build something that is visually complicated. It’s also been one of most common ways to model UI programming since at least the existence of HTML, if not earlier.
> UI in Rust is difficult because it's hard to share data across this component tree without inheritance. Additionally, in a normal UI framework there are all sorts of spots where you need to mutate the element tree, but because of Rust’s mutability rules, this "alter the tree however you want" approach doesn't work.[1]
[1] https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-ha...
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