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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This is really interesting. As a new Zed user, I've read about GPUI, but have no insights.

Coming from years of working with Qt, I'm always fascinated by the search for the "holy grail" of GUI libs. It's surprising how elusive a true "write-once-run-everywhere" solution (that's also good) still is.

My main question is about your long-term, cross-platform vision: How are you thinking about the matrix of Desktop, Web, and Embedded systems? Qt (for all its baggage) made a real run at desktop/embedded. Do you see GPUI components eventually covering all three, or is the focus purely on desktop/web for now?

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.

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!