For the past few years, I’ve been trying to build my ideal visual novel engine, and I’ve come to realize that I’ve largely been implementing a general-purpose 2D GUI solution.

The project README is:

https://github.com/Icemic/moyu/blob/main/README_EN.md

Just like react-canvas back in the day, I combined wgpu and quickjs, and used the latter to run React. Of course, there’s no react-dom involved here; I have a custom renderer built with reconciler that binds to elements like `` or `` that I implemented in Rust.

Today this reminded me that maybe I should submit my project to arewegameyet and areweguiyet…

Recently I’ve been trying to add a visual editor to it—you know, similar to the relationship between RPG Maker MV and Pixijs. As a former frontend engineer and current Rust client engineer, I felt I had plenty of options. First, I looked into GPUI, and I have to say it’s a fantastic project, but unfortunately, it lacks the essential components I need to build my application. In the end, I had to go with a traditional solution like Tauri+ShadCN because I want to focus on the project itself.