1043: I’m Using GPUI For Everything

Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like Tailwind, GPUI Kit components, the community fork drama, and the tiny desktop apps Scott has built with it.

• 00:00">00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • GPUI
• 01:24">01:24 Electron, Tauri, and the Trouble With Web Views
• 04:05">04:05 Enter GPUI: Why We Don’t Take Money to Talk About Tools
• 05:32">05:32 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 05:59">05:59 What GPUI Is: GPU Accelerated, Cross Platform, Native All the Way Down
• 06:50">06:50 A React Like API in Rust: Divs, Flex, and Chained Methods
• 09:35">09:35 Components, Props, and State in GPUI
  • Scott’s GPUI Demo Gist
• 11:21">11:21 How Much of CSS Does GPUI Actually Reimplement?
• 12:52">12:52 Flexbox Everywhere, But Where Is CSS Grid?
• 14:17">14:17 Where Does Your App Logic Live? No RPC Layer Needed
• 15:53">15:53 Render vs RenderOnce: Stateful and Static Components
• 16:57">16:57 GPUI Kit: The shadcn of GPUI
• 18:46">18:46 GPUI CE: The Community Fork and Ecosystem Tension
• 21:29">21:29 Apps Scott Built With GPUI: Gendo, File Bro, and Mr. Space
• 22:48">22:48 Why Tiny Utility Apps Should Stay Tiny
• 24:25">24:25 File Bro: File Automations a la Hazel
• 25:27">25:27 Mr. Space: Building a macOS Window Manager
• 27:05">27:05 The Downsides: No Native UI Elements and No Browser DOM
  • Scott’s Rust Best Practices Skill
• 29:56">29:56 Testing GPUI Apps With Jev and the Accessibility Tree
  • gpui-agent
• 30:39">30:39 GPUI Mobile: Experimental, But It Works
  • GPUI Kit Mobile Docs
  • gpui-mobile
• 31:52">31:52 Final Verdict: GPUI for Personal Desktop Software

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