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COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

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[–] mmstick 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That would compromise our vision of a GUI platform built from the ground up in Rust. It would also not be feasible to use Flutter for applet development. We can easily make modifications directly to iced for all the Wayland integrations that we need in COSMIC, as the iced code base is very lean, and written in Rust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Got it. So being written in Rust is one of the requirements. Makes sense. Flutter is great for self-contained applications but we can definitely use another sane native toolkit besides Qt that has wider applicability.