How to Port Cosmic Applications to Redox

Redox is going to target two toolkits: SoftBuffer and WinIt. Iced was chosen as a toolkit because OrbTK wasn't up to the task. Slint also could reuse the same libraries and now it's running on Redox. Now we have the opportunity to port Cosmic applications directly to Redox. That means I can actually get paid to write applications that would be ported to Redox rather than being interested in other things. It's not a critical aspect to Redox to prove that there can be a Rust GUI. And if we have a Rust thing being developed and being paid for by another company, why not just bring that in?

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