egui with Emil Ernerfeldt

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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• [@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?

• egui’s Github
• Emil’s Github

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma