I clearly have had way too much time on my hands lately because I have begun to investigate developing a gui toolbox and widgets similar to GTK or Qt only written in pure Julia. My reasons for this are: that for the life of me I cannot figure out GTK, no matter how many tutorials I watch, GTK doe…

[image] Henrique_Becker: A package above GTK.jl (instead of replacing GTK.jl ) could take care of these problems. GtkReactive is a package that sits above GTK.jl https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkReactive.jl/stable/controls.html GtkObservables is a further iteration on this taking advantage …

This is an unnecessary splitting of hairs. I think it was very obvious what I was talking about with the OP given the current state of the Julian infrastructure. I don’t believe that the creators of GTK or QML were asked to parse out their use of words in such a manner. I guess my mistake was not …

Another option I haven’t seen mentioned is making a TUI toolkit. Here are some from other languages https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Gtk.jl actually does abstract quite a bit from GTK already but it’s true it could be improved to hide the library more. That said I think it’s very hard to get away from GTK logic and design without encountering some serious issues. For example if a user wants to update part of the GUI at regular in…

Looking more into Wayland, it does look like there might be decent cross platform support in the future beyond the native Linux support. macOS: https://github.com/owl-compositor/owl Windows Subsystem for Linux: Run Linux GUI apps with WSL | Microsoft Docs While someone may still need to understan…

@logankilpatrick put together a nice overview here about existing frameworks: 6 Julia Frameworks to Create Desktop GUI’s 🖥 and Web Apps 🕸 You could build beautiful apps purely in Julia. Reading time: 5 min read

@caleb-allen I think you are getting the gist of the original idea along with @jonathanBieler and @ufechner7 . There seems to be a lot of folks on this thread that like to look at a problem and see all the things that can go wrong and say it can’t be done or shouldn’t be done. If you or anyone is w…

[image] SergeantMike67: I guess my mistake was not including the phrase “native Julia at a level most reasonable developers can use without having to re-write the entire operating system in Julia.” Okay, and what level is that? This includes rewriting GTK.jl or not? Or it will build above ano…

another option might be to wrap one of the various new UI toolkits for Rust: https://www.areweguiyet.com/ personally, I’m skeptical of the viability of user interface-toolkits that don’t target the browser (or adjacent technologies) for at least one of the backends.

It would be cool to have Julia bindings to Rust’s gui libraries. Possibly even cooler to port them to pure Julia, but that would take a lot longer. Neither of these is yet stable but both quite interesting: https://github.com/linebender/druid https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

Anyone crazy enough to develop a pure Julia GUI toolbox?

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@logankilpatrick put together a nice overview here about existing frameworks:

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Anyone crazy enough to develop a pure Julia GUI toolbox?

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