I wouldn't bother watching Makepad. They're in the process of rewriting the entire thing with AI and (it seems to me) destroying any value they has accumulated. And I also suspect Xilem will never be finished.
replyBeyond egui/Iced/Slint, I'd say the "ones to watch" are:
* Freya
* Floem
* Vizia
I think all three of those offer virtualized lists.
Dioxus Native, the non-webview version of Dioxus is also nearing readiness.
I’m currently writing an application that uses virtual lists in GTK: GtkListView, GtkGridView, there may be others. You ruled out GTK because of its looks I guess, I’m targeting Linux so the looks are perfect.
replyYeah, I need cross platform, and GTK looks quite foreign on Windows/macOS IMO. I toyed with custom themes, but couldn't find any I liked for a cross platform look (wanted something closer to Fluent UI).
replyNot just because of its looks to be fair. Not being native Rust is a pain, and GTK only really works nicely on Linux. At least without a ton of effort to fix everything (I think some apps like maybe Mypaint have done that, but I don't want to).
replyI believe latest Iced versions do have a `Lazy` widget wrapper, but I believe that effectively means you need to make your own virtual list on top of it
replyCustom widgets aren’t particularly hard to do in iced, but I wish some of those common cases would be committed back / made available.
replyExcept the above virtualised lists, another case I hit was layered images (sprites for example). Not very hard to write my own, sure, but it’d be nice to have that out of the box as in eg. egui
I've been somewhat involved in a project using Iced this week, seems pretty reasonable. Not sure how tricky it would be to e.g. invent custom widgets though.
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