Slint 101: The Basics
Early this year, I mentioned that I was excited about the Slint development and that it was a toolkit on top of my watchlist this year. Refer to my previous post below.
New Year: Slint, PocketBase, Rust, and C++; My watchlist
There is always a plan, one we set when we begin every year. An introspection into some things we’d like to achieve or see come to pass. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but as we know, as much as it’s our dream, it can also be our
Allan K. Koech
What is Slint? Slint is a cross-platform UI toolkit written in Rust with language bindings for C++, JavaScript, Python, and much more. As a cross-platform toolkit, Slint boasts of a couple of features:
- Separation between the UI and the business logic: Slint comes with its DSL called
slintwhich allows writing UI and connecting it to the business logic written in our preferred supported language. - Lightweight: Slint runs on both modern computers and small microcontrollers, with the Slint runtime fitting within 300 KiB of RAM.
- Native: Slint compiles to the native binary, which is excellent for performance.
- And much more!
Checkout a full walkthrough of Slint on our youtube channel below.
Youtube Video
Hope you find the video helpful. If you have any question, feel free to reach out! Cheers!
