Comment by cosmic_cheese
3 hours ago
Even if React is technically the most popular, that’s somewhat moot because most folks who might be interested in writing desktop apps with Rust probably aren’t coming from a web background, but instead from old school desktop UI frameworks (AppKit, win32, GTK, Qt, etc).
For this crowd, the barebones “bring your own everything” style of React and its analogues and contortions required to write apps with complex UIs in a declarative framework are not very appealing. OO imperative UI frameworks with a wide and deep chest of batteries-included widgets still come out on top for this particular use case. Minimal declarative frameworks are fine for light utilities but become progressively more cumbersome every step beyond that.
> most folks who might be interested in writing desktop apps with Rust probably aren’t coming from a web background, but instead from old school desktop UI frameworks
You'd be surprised. A lot of people migrating to desktop apps are people coming from a web background (this is after all by far the largest pool of UI developers) who want something more efficient than electron.