jplatte / glazier

glazier

glazier is an attempt to provide a common interface to the various elements of different platform application frameworks. It is designed to be used by druid, a UI toolkit.

Design

The code in glazier can be divided into roughly two categories: the platform agnostic code and types, which are exposed directly, and the platform-specific implementations of these types, which live in per-backend directories in src/backend. The backend-specific code for the current backend is reexported as glazier::backend.

glazier does not generally expose backend types directly. Instead, we expose wrapper structs that define the common interface, and then call corresponding methods on the concrete type for the current backend.

Unsafe

Interacting with system APIs is inherently unsafe. One of the goals of glazier is to handle all interaction with these APIs, exposing a safe interface to druid and other possible consumers.