Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean?

I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a major vendor yet :)

Has System76 started designing, or more correctly outsourcing more expensive custom motherboard designs, like Lenovo and Dell or are they still selling slightly customized white-label laptops?

I'm partial to Dioxus with their native renderer coming up, it should work cross-platform on mobile, web, desktop like Flutter (except web is actually HTML and CSS, not canvas) rather than only desktop which is what most Rust GUI frameworks are targeting.

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz

Dioxus is the real deal. It makes it super easy to create web-apps

I went from knowing nothing about web stuff to building this tool https://chakravarthysoftware.com/work_distributor in a week

Not sure how the UI engine itself compares, but to me it is all about the available components (as a total non-designer, although AI helps with that now). The only choice I have at the moment that would meet my needs is gpui, as gpui-component now exists.

Iced seems really promising, however, it's a passion project by a single developer. They very clearly stated that their goal is to follow their passions and desires first, everyone else second, and that it will always be a single person project. Their readme even discourages contributions.

Companies using it in production are often forking it as a result, and trying to keep their fork in sync. Ultimately, if the community wants iced to become a major and stable framework, it will have to be forked and a community development model built around it.

And I'm not saying this to disparage the author in any way, their readme even seems to suggest that that's exactly what they'd prefer.

Isn't System76 supporting and contributing to iced?

Yes, and I believe the main developer works for Kraken who use it for one of their apps.

Yes, but they maintain their own fork and are good about syncing. It's still not an ideal model long term.

This is silly. Definitely use Iced.rs, no one cares about it’s early pre-1.0 state. It has good fundamentals and is easy to use. 99% of people on here aren’t building anything more than a vanity project anyways.

There is also Slint : https://slint.dev They are also backed by a company, and have kept a stable 1.x release for some time.

Slint is essentially proprietary-only. Licensing a library as GPLv3 severely limits where it can or should be used.