Where am I with Rust GUIs

Overview

I love the idea of Vue, but I don’t have the mental bandwidth to learn it properly, so to make HTML apps there’s a few options:

• try to use Vue anyway
• try to use Leptos or Yew which compile down to HTML+WASM+JS
• try any of them with or without Tauri
• dioxus compiles down to a HTML + Tauri app

There’s a few options for primarily GUI apps:

• non-Rust Godot with potentially a Rust extension (lots of idle games in Godot)
• egui + eframe to have a “plain” application
• bevy + egui + bevy_egui to have Bevy take care of the window + offer a game engine if that’s what you want

bevyui bevy egui leptos - 20k gh tauri - 101k gh dioxus - 33k gh yew - 32k gh

Leptos pros

• Actix/Axum server side rendering or something
• Isomorphic - can write same style code to do server-side API endpoints

Dioxus pros

• dx serve --platform android
• fast rebuild and live reload of course

Not considered

• cushy - not updated for a year

More reading:

https://yew.rs/docs/category/using-basic-web-technologies-in-yew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuEs23sIOY

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1. Blog post first published on 2026-01-05nb . ↩