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System76's COSMIC desktop environment is implemented using it: https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-sho...

But no, none of the Rust-only GUI libraries are mature yet.

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It’s surprisingly hard for me to tell if this is sarcastic or not. I can imagine both ways:

1. “People implement major things in it, it’s mature, obviously.”

2. “People have implemented these things, but it requires care/attention/hacks that wouldn’t be required in a mature framework.”

I don't think it's sarcastic. COSMIC is still early in development and they're contributing upstream to Iced to improve it. And as the Iced repo[1] itself says, "Iced is currently experimental software".

1: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

Yeah that's exactly it, they're aiming for a 2024 release, and due to the nature of that being in the future, it's unclear both whether they will make that, and how stable/mature that first release will be. So my link demonstrates that someone is using it, not that it's mature.

Wasn't aware System76 was pulling Rust chops and making a DE, thanks for sharing.

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