A Critique of GPUI
- Recently, there has been a trend of more desktop GUI apps being built using native rust GUI frameworks.
- And there are now even well known electron apps getting official rewrites: Discord announced their app is being rewritten using GPUI.1 Meanwhile, a lot of the LLM-clones being published seem to choose egui.
- In this post, I want to explain why I am not sure those frameworks are a good foundation to build on.
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- Recently, there has been a trend of more desktop GUI apps being built using native rust GUI frameworks.
- And there are now even well known electron apps getting official rewrites: Discord announced their app is being rewritten using GPUI.1 Meanwhile, a lot of the LLM-clones being published seem to choose egui.
- In this post, I want to explain why I am not sure those frameworks are a good foundation to build on.
Sources: Zortax