 The new xilem work has a lot of shiny tech, but I am in many ways even more excited by the community focus. A number of decisions are explicitly motivated by an opportunity to work with other Rust projects. Using wgpu for our GPU infrastructure should open many doors, and this is not the only such decision. We're also doing regular office hours every week, which I hope will really help coordinate the community. I get the sense there really is a will to build all this. I'm excited. 4 comments
@raph Excited to see what comes out of the Xilem branch! @raph I am so very hyped! I thought you mainly work on your own on xilem, is development backed by a company? @nilsmartel Let me address this in some detail. I'm a research software engineer on the Google Fonts team, and my main project is piet-gpu (for GPU font and emoji rendering, among other things). Rust GUI work falls within my research portfolio, but is not an official Google product. Chad Brokaw is another full time engineer working on GPU font rendering and Rust text layout. Google Fonts also funds work on AccessKit. |
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@raph I am excited to see Xilem. Lapce currently does not feel quite right. There's a lot of opaque pointers (widget IDs) moving around that is hard to get right and there's a lot of crashes if you poke the system enough.