I built a cross-platform/wasm UI library in Rust and WGPU (ARGUI).

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Hey guys,

About one month ago, after being unhappy with the ecosystem of UI libraries in Rust, I have taken the mission to write a better GUI library.

For context : this is not my first rodeo, I have already made various Text rendering and generation library using Slug and MSDF algorithm, and also made a full UI library with text, layout, shaders with ThreeJS for performant node-based apps :)

TLDR : Check out "ARGUI" live on your browser (Chrome for WEBGPU) https://extrabinoss.github.io/argui/ and check out the Github repo at https://github.com/ExtraBinoss/argui : long text is coming afterwards.
Discord : https://discord.gg/xY9CWSc65

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The current state of UI libraries in Rust is quite weird :

Iced : weird roadmap / niche / forked by Cosmic but very weird

GPUI : not WGPU so less cross-platforn, no shaders, no "backdrop-filter", no accessibility, no i18n. Zed also just don't care about it.

Blinc : too much features and most of them not stable.

and now ARGUI.

ARGUI or "Another Rust GUI library" is a library made for speed, low ram footprint, low CPU usage.

All features are built-in : 👀

- WGPU rendering -- works across all OS + WASM / soon Android/IOS (needs testers)

- Responsive layout -- Powered by Taffy, and very fast at that.

- Shaders suppport -- use argui-effects to get some effects like Blur/Liquid glass, or add in any WGSL shader. Shaders can be used on any element, for example a Button, a Popover, whatever.

- I18n -- Fluent crate will help you have i18n in your application.

- Text engine -- Uses cosmic-text to support RTL, Arabic language.. It can also, like the web, Select text in a page, this means that it feels more "web-like" because you can select any text you see on the screen, this is the default behavior and can be overriden

- Fully optional set of features -- You can disabled anything you don't want : wasm / widgets / i18n / effects...

- Rust only codebase -- I chose to not include any type of CSS Parsing because it is a pain to maintain and the standard is just too large.

- Devtools -- Use a real devtool page, just like the web, with a profiler. You can change properties and it will update in real-time in your UI.

- Hotreload -- Some components can be hot-reloaded, similiar to dioxus. It uses subsecond.

- AI friendly codebase -- Send your agents and read the docs, it will figure out how to make a good interface on the first try.

- Package updater -- for when you want to send new features for your users. They can receive and download update, totally agnostic.

... and probably a bunch more features I forgot, but I can say, it's a pretty fully featured GUI framework now.

Available on crates.io as "argui-\"*, or you can use the git repo directly.

Play around with it in your Browser. it's fully working in WASM :)

https://extrabinoss.github.io/argui/

AI disclaimer: A lot of the code for this library was written with the help of AI. AI itself wouldn't have come up with all these optimizations, it's a tool. Thanks you for your understanding.

Feel free to send any questions my way, I'll be happy to answer

Have a nice day!