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KAS will never be popular so long as it can only be used with Rust apps. It's still nice to see how Rust can be used in this context, but maybe make it into a wrapper for something more flexible.

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This seems like a bad take on popularity. What exactly is the criteria here? Is Qt not popular because it's not a JavaScript framework?

I think it's much more valuable to look at this from the viewpoint of the Rust GUI ecosystem, and not compare absolute numbers where nothing comes close to JavaScript .

QT and a JS framework are used in very different contexts. If your toolkit is aiming to work on Windows, MacOS, and Linux desktops, it is directly competing with QT, GTK, and Native (on all 3, and very few apps do separate native UI). Open source works better with a larger user base, so aiming for "Window, MacOS, and Linux RUST APPS" is terribly restrictive on the number of people who will use it and hence maintain it.

I'm all for RIIR but it will take 30 years before enough has been rewritten for a Rust-only GUI to be viable IMHO.

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