Prebuild binaries should work on Windows 10,11, Mac, Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 and similar(libheif version and czkawka_gui requires Ubuntu 22.04+, rest Ubuntu 20.04) - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/releases/
| Gtk 4 | - Good Linux support </br> - Cambalache can be used to create graphically gui </br> - Good gtk4-rs bindings(but sometimes not really intuitive) | - Hard compilation/cross compilation and bundling all required libraries - mostly on windows </br> - Forcing the use of a specific gui creation style </br> - Strange crashes, not working basic features, etc.(again, mostly on windows) </br> - Forcing to use bugged/outdated but dynamically loaded version of libraries on linux (e.g. 4.6 on Ubuntu 22.04) - not all fixes are backported |
| Qt | - QML support - simplify creating of gui from code it is easy to use and powerful </br> - Very flexible framework <br/> - Typescript/javascript <=> qml interoperability </br> - Probably the most mature GUI library | - New and limited qt bindings <br/> - Hard to cross-compile <br/> - Very easy to create and use invalid state in QML(unexpected null/undefined values, messed properties bindings etc.) <br/> - Commercial license or GPL |
| Slint | - Internal language is compiled to native code <br/> - Live gui preview with Vscode/Vscodium without needing to use rust <br/> - Full rust solution - easy to compile/cross compile, minimal runtime requirements </br> - Static type checks in slint files | - Internal .slint language is more limited than QML <br/> - Out of bounds and similar errors are quietly being corrected instead printing error - this can lead to hard to debug problems <br/> - Only GPL is only available open-source license <br/> - Popup windows almost not exists <br/> - Internal widgets are almost not customizable and usually quite limited |
| Iced | - ~100% rust code - so compilation is simple </br> - Elm architecture - simple to understand | - Mostly maintained by one person - slows down fixing bugs and implementing new features </br> - GUI can be created only from rust code, which really is bad for creating complex GUIs(mostly due rust compile times) </br> - Docs are almost non-existent |
| Tauri | - Easy to create ui(at least for web developers) - uses html/css/js</br>- Quite portable | - Webview dependency - it is not really lightweight and can be hard to compile on some platforms and on Linux e.g. webRTC not working</br>- Cannot select directory - file chooser only can choose files - small thing but important for me</br>- Not very performant Rust <=> Javascript communication (less problematic with [Tauri 2](https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/7170#issuecomment-1583279023) ) |