The COSMIC desktop isn't ready for anything either so they're a perfect match made for each other. There's no better time to invest in a new GUI library than do

The COSMIC desktop isn't ready for anything either so they're a perfect match made for each other. There's no better time to invest in a new GUI library than doing so as you're already building a new desktop from scratch. Imagine how much money and effort would be wasted if we settled for GTK4 today and then later had to rewrite everything to Iced after someone else did the work for us. System76 would rather push the envelop and resolve this chicken & egg scenario instead of waiting around for consensus. People also underestimate the talent that works at System76 and the amount of work required to bring Iced up to speed. Iced has already proven itself, and its using an architecture (Elm) which has also already proven itself. It's the best way to develop a GUI in Rust, without a doubt. Jeremy has developed an entire desktop OS from scratch, including making a GUI toolkit for it, so it's not like we're oblivious to the effort required. Iced already has a fully functioning layout and rendering system so that webbrowser and JS engine analogy is complete. There's just a handful of features that are missing that are either partially implemented or we've already got 5 developers working on it full time to do the rest.