What popular crates are available to build GUIs with widgets WITHOUT GPU? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by van2z@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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For some reason, it seems popular for GUI crates to use the GPU. I just want to make simple widgets, for like a calculator.

No fancy graphics. I want it quite lightweight.

For some reason, popular GUI crates love to do everything through a GPU, which bumps up the memory / cpu use significantly.

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[-] hunger@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

Slint fits the bill: We have a demo running on a line-buffer in a microcontroller with <300KiB of RAM. Framebuffers are of course supported as well, as is GPU-accelerated rendering.

[-] BB_C@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Did you tick "Bot Account" by accident?

[-] hunger@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

I did tick that, since I saw text boxes and went "give me everything" without reading:-)

Fixed. Thank you for pointing this out.

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