Last Updated on March 8, 2026
Vizia is a declarative desktop GUI framework for the Rust programming language.
Vizia is a reactive UI framework. This means that visual elements which represent some state of the application will update when this state changes. Interacting with these visual elements causes the application state to change.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Declarative – write GUI code in a declarative way in pure Rust (no DSL macros).
- Reactive – views derive from application state. Change the state and the views which bind to it update automatically.
- Flexible layout – create flexible layouts which adapt to changes in size. It’s powered by morphorm.
- Powerful styling – take advantage of stylesheets with hot-reloading to fully customize the look of your application.
- Animations – bring your applications to life with animations.
Built-in views and themes – use over 25 ready-made views as well as two built-in themes (light and dark) to get you started. Includes 4250+ SVG icons, provided by Tabler Icons. - Accessibility – make you applications accessible to assistive technologies such as screen readers, powered by accesskit.
- Localization – adapt your application to different locales, including translating text with fluent.
- Optimised rendering – Vizia leverages the powerful and robust skia library for rendering, with further optimizations to only draw what is necessary.
- Audio plugin development – provides an alternative baseview windowing backend for audio plugin development, for example with the nih-plug framework.
- Cross-platform support – works with Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/vizia/vizia
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Developer: George Atkinson
License: MIT License
Vizia is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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