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A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

78 mentions on Hacker News by 54 people: 11 stories, 67 comments · first 2019-09-06 · latest 2026-02-14

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  1. Iced.rs is also neat[0]. 0 - https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  2. …serialization along with plain text. A single line is a message. The client is built with [iced]( https://github.com/iced-rs/iced ), so it is a desktop and mobile application, not a browser application. The client has many features and is…
    comment by dcampbell1100 · 2026-01-29 · in Hnefatafl
  3. ▲ 173
    Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
    story by rekireki · 2025-12-22 · 85 comments
  4. …by the Elm Arch, so that checks out (see the first line under the Overview section of the Readme https://github.com/iced-rs/iced )
  5. …the big issues of all those awful electron apps which the native frameworks can supposedly avoid), https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/2455 https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/615 . Or high memory use, another fatal flaw of all those…
  6. they had release just yesteday but yeah, it's quite long between releases. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/releases/tag/0.14.0
  7. …about accessibility support, looks like it's a WIP with contributions from System76 staff <3 https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552 And TIL about AccessKit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
  8. Repo: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  9. ▲ 113
    Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
    story by airstrike · 2025-12-07 · 63 comments
  10. …that the version after next should support it, and the last comment was in february of this year ( https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552 ) I bookmarked this so hopefully once that effort gets further along I can give it a try! I…
    comment by ClawsOnPaws · 2025-10-15 · in Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
  11. …app but a fantastic example if you want to learn more about building GUI software with iced. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced If you're interested in building a GUI app in Rust, I encourage you to go through the examples and showcase apps…
    comment by airstrike · 2025-10-15 · in Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
  12. In that case, I'm happy to let you know your info is outdated. CJK/IME support has landed. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/2777
    comment by airstrike · 2025-07-31 · in I tried Servo
  13. iced now has hot reloading :tada: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/3000
  14. …to link to a ridiculously cool new feature that dropped last week: time travel debugging for free https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/2910 check out the third and fourth videos!
    comment by airstrike · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  15. …shoutout to iced, the wonderful GUI library used by halloy https://github.com/squidowl/halloy https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by airstrike · 2025-04-17 · in mIRC 7.81
  16. …which isn't even in 1.0 yet but can do that with ease and faster than anything I've ever seen: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced https://github.com/tarkah/iced_table is a third-party widget for tables, but you can roll out your own or use…
    comment by airstrike · 2025-02-25 · in Hyperspace
  17. I don't use Rust much but I think there's a lot going on in terms of UI: - https://github.com/iced-rs/iced - https://github.com/emilk/egui - https://github.com/slint-ui/slint - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus No idea if these are…
    comment by petabyt · 2025-02-11 · in Ask HN: Modern GUI Research
  18. …fast, safe, cross-platform GUI apps, I'd encourage you to try iced. It's a breath of fresh air https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  19. …an unpublished "paper" and tabled it for now. ________ [0]: https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn [1]: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by airstrike · 2025-01-24 · in AI isn't going to kill the software industry
  20. …where performance absolutely matters and a fine grained level of control over the UI is desired. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  21. …server is very helpful. I'm there virtually 24/7 and happy to answer any questions The repo is at https://github.com/iced-rs/iced -- check out the readme for two complex apps recently built. It's fully themeable so you can make apps look…
  22. …a "functional language", my personal favorite is iced, which is bloody brilliant and blazing fast https://github.com/iced-rs/iced It's desktop-first but compiles to WASM It's honestly "just Rust", so I guess if you're looking for a…
    comment by airstrike · 2024-09-17 · in Rio: Web apps in pure Python
  23. iced has had TextInput for 5 years now. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/commit/63cd0fd8eb1eebae8de7d...
    comment by airstrike · 2024-08-28 · in COSMIC Alpha Released
  24. …it looks like System76 does actually think about accessibility, but it's not upstreamed yet. [1]: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552#issuecomment-2180...
    comment by jorams · 2024-08-28 · in COSMIC Alpha Released
  25. Looks like TextInput was just added in the last week: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/master/widget/src/text_...
    comment by james2doyle · 2024-08-28 · in COSMIC Alpha Released
  26. …"low effort" distros/DEs that are just modified ubuntu/GNOME, but these folks seem to be legit. [0] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by JeremyNT · 2024-08-08 · in Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment
  27. …amazing, and can do anything you need it to at blazing fast speed and low memory footprint: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by airstrike · 2024-07-01 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
  28. I would suggest iced if you're ok with Rust https://github.com/iced-rs/iced It's amazing, but I should warn documentation right now is not quite thorough
    comment by airstrike · 2024-06-24 · in Cosmopolitan v3.5
  29. It's not actually a limitation, the ecosystem is just young: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced My general point though is that there's still some ecosystem/legacy reasons to stick with C++, but Rust very much fills the same niches as C++.
  30. …Sounds like a fun project to try to port over to Rust using iced if anyone is looking for ideas ;-) https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by airstrike · 2024-05-19 · in A kids traffic mat in Elm
  31. ▲ 2
    Iced 0.12 Released
    story by mandibles · 2024-02-15 · 0 comments
  32. …GUI libs are very OO). https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by cies · 2023-07-05 · in LXD is now under Canonical
  33. …of fanaticism. Could it really be different this time??? The feature list is really impressive: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced Plus, here is the road map with many things already done : https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/master/ROADMAP.m…
  34. …Cargo.toml https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/blob/main/Cargo.toml It seems to use iced gui toolkit https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  35. Looks like https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  36. …to improve it. And as the Iced repo[1] itself says, "Iced is currently experimental software". 1: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
  37. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced Doesn’t seem to be.
  38. There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche: - https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today) - https://github.com/vizia/vizia - https://github.com/marc2332/freya -…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-03 · in XUL Layout is gone
  39. This has already been merged into iced, which is now a default UI framework for PopOS: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/1697
  40. From [1] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced it says: "Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Web)"
    comment by vlod · 2023-02-09 · in The Future of Thunderbird
  41. …[1] (cross platform ui library). [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Iced-Toolkit [1] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by vlod · 2023-02-09 · in The Future of Thunderbird
  42. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by flippinburgers · 2023-02-08 · in Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again
  43. You can use GTK from Rust. But the Rust native ones aren't really there yet. [Iced]( https://github.com/iced-rs/iced ) which has been picked up by System76 and [Druid]( https://github.com/linebender/druid ) (and it's next gen version…
    comment by nicoburns · 2022-12-26 · in Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
  44. …long. Likely will try writing a small app in it later. Mit Licensed. Wayland and Vulkan support. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by csdreamer7 · 2022-10-02 · in Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?
  45. Kraken, the company behind https://cryptowat.ch use the following cross-platform GUI library for Rust https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by stefanos82 · 2022-06-08 · in Sunsetting Atom
  46. …on some of the new UI frameworks coming out of the Rust community in particular. For example https://github.com/iced-rs/iced looks quite good. What are you smoking? :-) "Lack of x-platform native GUI frameworks" is not the reason for…
  47. …on some of the new UI frameworks coming out of the Rust community in particular. For example https://github.com/iced-rs/iced looks quite good.
  48. ▲ 6
    iced-rs release 0.4
    story by elromulous · 2022-05-03 · 0 comments
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    Iced – A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
    story by maydemir · 2022-04-11 · 10 comments
  50. …languages by over a third of the world’s population) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/686 See the challenges of properly supporting IME in Druid, another Rust toolkit:…