That showcase application (other than Zed) looks awesome, but the very fancy-looking home page [1] fails to have a one-liner explanation of, uh, what the application does. Please consider fixing.

[1]: https://longbridge.com/desktop/

Unfortunately, it's a framework. That is, it demands to own the event loop. It has a type "Application" (This is Rust, don't get to say "it has a class Application, which you subclass", but that's how it works.) That's fine for a cold start where you do everything their way, but tough if there's already an event loop. egui, in contrast, is just a library crate which needs to be called on each frame.

No mobile support. I get that a desktop UI framework doesn't want to target smartphones, but I think iPads (and bigger Android tablets) can cope well with more traditional desktop paradigms.

Although its still very vertically scoped for zed, I'm way more hyped about this UI than iced, dioxus ui, gtk-rs, etc. because of how complete it already is in an early stage.

Then again I love zed so I might be biased.

I'm interested in how's the battery life while running a thing ilke this. Another thing I'm interested in does it support rendering to texture.. usage being used as a texture on an object (monitor let's say) in a game or rendered as a texture with opacity on a quad/triangle over a screen as a UI layer or a HUD

It's interesting to see more people building on top of GPUI. I recently also saw https://github.com/Augani/adabraka-ui which looks fairly similar.

2 hours after it's posted on HN, the repo has its first "readme.md typo fix" commit.

Sad to see that the C++ community is sleeping on this. There are no modern GUI components or toolkits, specially under such a permissive license.

Excited about the future of Rust GUI development, this is fantastic.

I was expecting something ugly but these actually look beautiful!

This looks very good from the screenshots. I will try this as quickly as I can. I have been building with egui and have tried Iced, Slint and Makepad.

I built (agentic coded) a stocks viewer app for Indian stock market data: https://github.com/brainless/Indistocks. It was a fantastic experience as to how easily I could build a GUI app.

My main product also uses egui: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo. It used to have a web app frontend and I moved to desktop app after the experiment with Indistocks. The experience has been really good, also coded with agents.

Desktop apps are fun and even on my somewhat old and slow laptop (i5 8th gen, 16 GB RAM, 2GB nvidia dedicated graphics), they are so much faster than web apps on Chrome (on Linux). I want desktop apps to make a big comeback, we could use so many old devices.