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Scenic - A Functional UI Framework
There is a talk for ElixirConf US this fall that is announcing Scenic. I can’t find anything anywhere about this framework. I am very interested in it. Has anyone heard of this? know where the Git repository is if this is open source?
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boydm
Yes indeed! I will be talking about Scenic, which is what I was talking about at the last Elixir Conf (hadn’t named it yet).
I’ve been coding like crazy on this for the past year and it is really starting to take shape. Everything works great on a Mac, I’m finishing up the Raspberry via Nerves now and then a bunch of cleanup work over the summer. Should be up on Mac, Linux, Window, Raspberry 3/0 and more by the time the conferences comes around.
If anyone has questions about it in the mean time, feel free to reach out. I’ve been hesitant to give access until I feel confident the apis have stopped fluctuating wildly. I think I’m there. So it will be out in the wild soonish.
Whew. I’m looking forward to talking opening about it instead of just being heads down coding.
boydm
Hey guys, totally get the debate. Asked myself the same question.
Some projects lend themselves to open from the start. Some don’t. In this case, I knew roughly what I wanted, but also knew that it would change significantly from the original designs as it progressed. (that definitely happened). The last thing I want is accreting inertia by having people write code on top of APIs that I need to feel free to change. Once an API is released to the wild it takes on a certain weight. There is an implied obligation to not jerk it around all the time.
So, I think it depends on the nature of the project. This one needed to incubate closed for a while. Or rather, with a close circle of other developers having access and giving feedback on it.
sherbondy
Boyd has done it! Open source as of this afternoon:
https://github.com/boydm/scenic
Congrats! So excited to see the start of a viable elixir-oriented GUI toolkit. Goodbye Qt!
Can’t wait to contribute some components and supporting libraries.
Some ideas for fun libraries:
- SVG renderer
- Code generation tool that ingests common UI design formats (Sketch, Figma, XD…)
- Grammar of Graphics style or D3-eque data viz primitives.
And of course all of the nitty gritty UI components, e.g. date pickers, scroll views, …
Woohoo!
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boydm
There has been some iniital work done to get it working on Windows, but I’ve been swamped and haven’t verified it. Take a look at Windows Support by gVirtu · Pull Request #22 · ScenicFramework/scenic_driver_glfw · GitHub which is most if not all of what you want. Let me know if you can get it to work.
Thanks!
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