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Re:Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in ... by amelius on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:49PM (#27786400)
> My conclusion is basically "there's nothing viable".

How is this possible given that the Rust language was created to write the rendering engine of Firefox?

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Re:Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in ... by YorickPeterse on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:58PM (#27786531)
I don't think it was created for Firefox, as Rust (in various forms) has been around for over 10 years at this point I think.

Setting that aside, Servo and Firefox both implement the UI side of things from scratch I think. I think from a browser perspective that makes sense: you're already writing a rendering engine, so you may as well also use it for your browser UI.

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Re:Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in ... by pseudalopex on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:26PM (#27788726)
Firefox in various forms has been around for nearly 20 years.

Rust was Graydon Hoare's personal project. But I don't think Mozilla funded it for no reason.

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