Comment by OlaProis

Good question! A few reasons for egui over gtk-rs/iced/others:

- Immediate mode — egui redraws every frame, which makes state management simpler (no callback hell). Great for prototyping.

- Pure Rust, minimal deps — egui is self-contained. gtk-rs requires GTK installed on the system.

- Cross-platform out of the box — Same code runs on Windows/Linux/macOS/Web

- Rapid iteration — Hot reload-friendly, easy to experiment with layouts

Trade-offs: egui's TextEdit isn't designed for code editors (no multi-cursor, can't hide folded text), which is why v0.3.0 will replace it with a custom widget.