Slid and the Future of Rust

Allen Wyma talks with Tobias Hunger, developer on Slint. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display. Slint has just made a 1.0 release.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@04:02] - Slint updates and progress from the previous interview
• [@06:15] - Upgrades that came along releasing of Slint 1.0
• [@11:12] - Bugs fixed in Slint 1.0
• [@12:43] - Stability, improved tooling and other key features in the Slint upgrade
• [@15:34] - Multi-window support
• [@18:26] - Screen reader accessibility and keyboard shortcut in Slint
• [@22:04] - Raspberry Pi Pico and Zero 2 W
• [@24:21] - Rust support, line buffering and graphics acceleration
• [@26:10] - Other UIs that are out in the Rust space
• [@27:17] - Handling bugs and feature reports
• [@29:10] - Slint documentation
• [@34:02] - Patch files
• [@37:16] - Plans for the 1.1 release
• [@38:51] - Interesting ways users used Slint API
• [@40:30] - Slint users and Rust community feedback
• [@43:35] - Requiring that users have a Rust compiler installed
• [@46:31] - Programming with Rust vs C, C++
• [@48:33] - Tobias’ great experience with the Rust community

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma