Getting started
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+ Getting started
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As a first step we invite you to join our community on Mattermost. This is a great place to ask questions and get help from other Slint users.
This guide will help you get started with Slint. It will cover the basics of the language and how to get started with the Slint extension for Visual Studio Code.
Setting up VSCode
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Slint is a GUI toolkit for building modern fluid user interfaces for embedded devices, as well as desktop and mobile applications.
+Introduction
Slint is a GUI toolkit for building modern fluid user interfaces for embedded devices, as well as desktop and mobile applications.
Slint ties together many of todays most modern, powerful and popular UI language techniques to provide a simple, yet powerful, declarative language for building user interfaces. It’s also been designed with the aim to help ensure your application stays maintainable over time. So you can rapidly prototype and iterate your initial design, refine them into a final product and keep evolving that over time with less effort.
A Single UI Language for all products
There is only one Slint UI language. Regardless of the target platform be it an ultra-low-power microcontroller, a desktop application, or a mobile application, the same language is used to describe the user interface.
-Separate Business Logic
-The business logic can then be written with Rust, C++ or TypeScript.
Powerful UI renderer.
Slint provides its own UI render layer. It’s optimized for power efficiency and low memory usage. Offering a software renderer for platforms without a GPU and a hardware renderer for platforms with a GPU.
+Visual Tooling
+Code is a great abstraction for describing the user interface, however it’s possible to translate that in your head into a visual representation. This is where Slint’s visual tooling comes in. It provides a live preview of your application, so you can see the result of your changes in real time. This ins’t a simulation or an emulation, but a real-time preview of your application.
+Separate Business Logic
+The business logic can then be written with Rust, C++ or TypeScript.
Bridge between the two worlds.
Slint also provides a simple way to bridge the gap between the business logic and the UI.