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And then it would be just another minimalist desktop environment trying to compete with Gnome.

• rafram 2y ago
  Well, sure? Is that not what this already is? They could even write their GTK or Qt apps in Rust if they wanted to!
  • WD-42 2y ago
    Using a native toolkit built for Rust has massive productivity benefits when writing programs in Rust. Last I checked the GTK bindings for Rust were rough at best, I don't even know if they exist for QT.
    • rafram 2y ago
      The people using the DE don't care what programming language it's written in, so it's absurd to ask users to accept a rough/inferior/buggy/inaccessible system because an experimental UI library was more enjoyable for the developers.
      • WD-42 2y ago
        They won't have to accept anything if the developer never writes code in the first place... this is a ridiculous argument. How do you think most open source desktop software gets made?
      • panick21_ 2y ago
        Then the can just use Gnome ...