Iced rewrite

[Azorlogh]

Remaining milestones for the iced rewrite :

• [x] Clipboard
• [x] Undo / Redo
• [x] Project saving
• [ ] MPE backend

[Woyten]

@Azorlogh Could you explain why you plan to move from from Druid to Iced? I am considering moving https://crates.io/crates/microwave from Nannou to Druid.

[Azorlogh]

The main reason is that I want to eventually turn it into a VST, and AFAIK druid's architecture doesn't make it possible.

I think someone recently managed to fork druid and make a VST prototype with it but with some problems like not being able to open two windows at the same time.

If your project doesn't need VST then I think Druid is a good choice. In my very limited experience I would say: Druid pros:

• good animation support
• easy to write widgets & the drawing library piet is nice
• very fast & efficient Druid cons:
• no overlay support (so it's hard to make dropdowns)
• command logic can get messy (but that could be my own fault)
• rigidity (no VSTs, no 3D)
• you have to implement a special trait for all the structs in your state

Iced pros:

• modularity (you can replace a component if it doesn't fit your needs, which is why VSTs are possible)
• overlay support
• clean elm-like architecture which I like Iced cons:
• modularity (have to use lots of generics)
• no animation
• less efficient than druid since the widget tree has to be rebuilt for every event

Take this with a grain of salt though! These libraries move fast

[Woyten]

@Azorlogh Thanks for your explanation. By the way, I put your project on my microtonal-rust list: https://github.com/Woyten/microtonal-rust

Hope that's okay for you. Please share. :wink:

[Azorlogh]

Oh that's great, thank you as well. I hope rust gets a thriving future in the microtonal world!