qmetaobject-rs gives you the best of both worlds: logic in rust, UI in arguably world's best cross platform framework Qt.

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rjh29 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As a "batteries included" framework Qt is undoubtably amazing but I used it on a project recently and it struck me as dated compared to Flutter or React Native. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I had to write a lot of boilerplate C++ even when using QML. The layout engine feels byzantine. The state management is mostly manual. Flutter is a lot more consistent, reactive, and all done in one way (Dart) and it supports hot reload natively. It was a more pleasant experience overall.

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sgt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And React has that "web development" ecosystem taint... I'd definitely lean towards Flutter in this case. It's neat, tidy and a contained ecosystem. It may not be fully perfect, but for cross platform UI's I think it's the way to go.

My only question is - say if one uses Rust, is flutter_rust_bridge the way to go?

	▲	chews 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		flutter_rust_bridge is what rustdesk uses with pretty good success, it's where I first discovered it.

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sourcegrift an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Qt has been going strong for 2+ decades and you can bet will do so for at least that many more. Flutter is by Google and it exists when I started writing this comment but we can't say for sure it will when I'm done writing it

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aquariusDue 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm a bit out of the loop but I checked out the GitHub repo [0] and while the authors moved onto Slint the crate is still actively maintained. That said I also looked at the latest commits and that threw me down a rabbit hole of finding out that the main maintainer has a blog where he wrote about using Sailfish OS as a daily driver [1] and imagine my surprise when he revealed that he actually co-maintains a Signal client app for SailfishOS too. I looked into the GitLab repo for that app [2] and I gleefully discovered that it's mostly written in Rust, the Cargo.toml contains a dependency to qmetaobject-rs too.

All that is to say that I'm glad there's another way to get Rust on mobile aside from stuff like flutter_rust_bridge.

[0] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs

[1] https://www.rubdos.be/2026/04/17/my-sailfish-os-journey-apps...

[2] https://gitlab.com/whisperfish/whisperfish