This #Makepad demo and talk was jawdropping for me. A new live-coding, cross device, app platform UI thing written in #Rustlang that uses your GPU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg

The demo reminds me of Smalltalk demos, except the UX is pretty and modern. There is an attempt at unifying the IDE and the design tool that is refreshing.

There is a ton to unpack, I could watch @rikarends 's video a couple of times to try to glean more understanding.

@alcinnz @schickling @aral @rikarends

Here's an #invidious link to the vid: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg

And here's another example app of #Makepad, a synthesizer: https://makepad.nl/makepad/examples/ironfish/src/index.html

Makepad itself is a startup, and I don't know if they're VC-funded and what their plans are.

But the paradigm would entail #LocalFirst apps and hybrid decentralization (federated, #p2p), together with these new #UI approaches that can run anywhere and implemented from any programming language.

#Makepad: Designing modern #UI with #Rust and #WebAssembly

Prepare to get nerd-sniped by this impressive presentation by @rikarends at #RustNL conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg

Or directly check out the (old version of their) IDE, here running in the browser..

http://makepad.dev

https://github.com/makepad/makepad

Only feedback after watching the vid: Please, don't let AI handle #a11y .. maybe take inspiration from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson (Google Doc 😬 link at the bottom): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696