Comment by icemic

I think I’m in a good position to speak on this!

For the past few years, I’ve been trying to build my ideal visual novel engine, and I’ve come to realize that I’ve largely been implementing a general-purpose 2D GUI solution.

The project README is:

https://github.com/Icemic/moyu/blob/main/README_EN.md

Just like react-canvas back in the day, I combined wgpu and quickjs, and used the latter to run React. Of course, there’s no react-dom involved here; I have a custom renderer built with reconciler that binds to elements like `<sprite>` or `<text>` that I implemented in Rust.

Today this reminded me that maybe I should submit my project to arewegameyet and areweguiyet…

Recently I’ve been trying to add a visual editor to it—you know, similar to the relationship between RPG Maker MV and Pixijs. As a former frontend engineer and current Rust client engineer, I felt I had plenty of options. First, I looked into GPUI, and I have to say it’s a fantastic project, but unfortunately, it lacks the essential components I need to build my application. In the end, I had to go with a traditional solution like Tauri+ShadCN because I want to focus on the project itself.