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Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023

RustNL · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesWeb developmentComputer graphics & rendering

What it is

Rik Arends presents Makepad, a Rust UI framework, at RustNL 2023. The talk covers designing modern, GPU-fast UIs with Rust and includes live-coded demos of an IDE and a synthesizer.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it for the live-coded demos running at high frame rates, calling the performance impressive.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Get prepared to be blown away by Makepad”

    Live-coded Makepad talk with IDE, synthesizer, running at 120fps

    rapnie, 2023-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers”

  2. “did a presentation at RustNL on the UI aspect that was quite impressive performance wise”

    Makepad author's talk on UI design with impressive performance

    rvdca, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Makepad- Synthesizer Written in Rust”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: makepad, rust, ui, gpu rendering, live coding, webassembly

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