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points by satvikpendem 2 days ago | 0 comments

I'm looking forward to Blitz personally. And I don't think it's true that it's the only complete enough solution as there are many in Rust like slint, iced, egui etc.

[–] tensor 1 day ago

Slint yes but it’s commercial. Iced didn’t have a real accessibility story when I looked a few months ago. Ditto for egui. Also egui is immediate mode only which limits its general applicability.

[–] ogoffart 1 day ago

Slint is under multiple license, including the open-source GPL and a royalty free license. What specifically bothers you about the licensing? (I work on Slint, genuinely curious)

[–] satvikpendem 1 day ago

Probably that it's not non copy left like MIT so they can't just use it without sharing code back.

[–] ogoffart 1 day ago

But they even can. (royalty-free license)

[–] satvikpendem 17 hours ago

For free without paying, like the other GUI frameworks.

[–] tensor 15 hours ago

Correct. This is a class of products that I really would rather not go commercial for. It's extremely difficult to change after the fact so from a business standpoint it puts us in a place where if the vendor decides to start cranking prices or they sell their business and the new owner does, then we are in a really difficult position.

It's not actually about paying money or not, I've signed up for many a patreon or what not to support open source projects I use. I fully believe in paying people for software. But for core things like this I do prefer MIT/APACHE.