I think this may be more of a problem for people who are, because of the language(s) they are coming from, used to throwing everything at the garbage collector

I think this may be more of a problem for people who are, because of the language(s) they are coming from, used to throwing everything at the garbage collector to sort out. I've been writing Rust for years now, and the number of times I think "jeez, I wish I had a garbage collector right now" are so very few and far between that I can't come up with a single example right now. That is to say, I really think it has more to do with what you're familiar with. > It's probably one of the reasons why Rust has no stable GUI yet. I don't think there's much to this hypothesis. It's more likely that for people who really want something right now, there are plenty of bindings to GTK etc. that work quite well. People who are interested in a novel, idiomatic Rust GUI framework tend to be more interested in thoroughly exploring lots of different ideas than committing to one of them. That is to say, there's not actually any great urgency to slap together something that works that you could call "a Rust GUI", because in practice plenty of those options already exist!