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Wilfred Hughes

Nov 12, 2019 at 18:28

Designing a GUI library for Rust, and an excellent overview of the many different approaches taken in GUI frameworks: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020.html

Rust 2020: GUI and community

In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance (which, to me, includes startup time, RAM footprint, and binary size), and Rust is in the best position to deliver on that.