Disclaimer: Work in progress, this is still very much unfinished!
lsg is a library for making desktop/mobile gui applications in rust
It has a lot of features that make it awesome:
- Many, very functional builtin widgets.
- Custom styling and advanced animations is easier then ever.
- Widgets are powerful and you can create your own.
- Integration of async that abstracts aways the typical event loop.
- Rendering on the gpu using OpenGL. Support for custom rendering.
- Transparent architecture. Implementation details are there to be seen!
This library requires the use of async rust to handle events. This provides a very
powerful architecture that doesn't get messy quickly.
We also don't force an async executor upon you and you can use any you want. It is recommended to use a runtime that let's you spawn tasks though, since that really makes the architecture shine.
In my opinion smol or async-executor is the best choice, since it fits into this crates
lightweight philosophy. You can also just use futures_lite if you want to be really barebones.
I try to keep the number of dependencies to a reasonable minumum for rust standarts. When compiling for the first time there are still >100 crates that need to be build but this number should only get smaller with time.
Apps should also feel fast and responsive even in debug builds.
This library is meant to provide all features you need to write native feeling applications on all supported platforms. All supported platforms provide a complete feature-set with additional access to important native apis.
As it matures the toolkit should be stable on every supported platform.
Literally everything right now.
These features will be implemented in the future:
- support for accesskit
- more platforms
| Platform | Supported | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | ❌ | Coming soon! |
| Linux | ✅ | Only Wayland for now. |
| Android | ❌ | Coming soon! |
| MacOS | ❌ | Possibly in the future. |
| iOS | ❌ | Possibly in the future. |
| WASM | ❌ | Coming soon! |
| Platform | Dependencies |
|---|---|
| Windows | ❌ |
| Linux | wayland-devel, xkbcommon-devel |
| Android | ❌ |
| MacOS | ❌ |
| iOS | ❌ |