Allen Wyma talks with Emil Ernerfeldt, creator of egui. egui is a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. egui runs on the web, natively, and in your favorite game engine (or will soon).
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Timestamps
- [@0:41] - History of Emil’s last name “Ernerfeldt”
- [@1:25] - Getting Emil on this podcast
- [@4:06] - Emil’s Bio and egui
- [@11:52] - Building egui
- [@16:47] - Immediate mode
- [@26:27] - Knowing when to use egui
- [@31:35] - Parent-child contraints
- [@34:21] - Immediate mode is dynamic
- [@36:22] - Refresh rate and Continuous mode
- [@39:11] - Themes in egui
- [@39:59] - egui more for development or client side app?
- [@45:17] - Opinions on hiring people and Emil’s company
- [@49:09] - Opinions on products built by you vs built by others
- [@53:48] - Other GUIs
- [@56:54] - Future plans on egui
- [@58:45] - Anything else you want to mention?
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Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma