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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm just happy there's a rust DE being written in slint. KDE is nice and all, but it's all C++. No way am I touching that trainwreck of a language again.

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[–] mmstick 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

COSMIC is being written in libcosmic, which is based on iced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused. Slint says it's working with System76?

A great start to the week - @pop_os_official will collaborate with us to offer Slint as an alternative toolkit for application development on Cosmic Desktop.

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[–] mmstick 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The keyword is alternative. All first party applications are written natively with our libcosmic toolkit, which is based on iced-rs. We are using a fork of iced though because we needed to implement a custom runtime with the sctk (smithay client toolkit) for COSMIC applet development, but our desktop applications will use the original winit runtime.