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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
    comment by Matl · 2026-02-14 · in Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
  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. …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 )
    comment by 0manrho · 2025-12-08 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
  4. …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…
    comment by eviks · 2025-12-08 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
  5. they had release just yesteday but yeah, it's quite long between releases. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/releases/tag/0.14.0
    comment by tuananh · 2025-12-08 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
  6. …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
    comment by avtar · 2025-12-07 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
  7. Repo: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by andsoitis · 2025-12-07 · in Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
  8. …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
  9. …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
  10. 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
  11. iced now has hot reloading :tada: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/3000
    comment by airstrike · 2025-06-27 · in I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. 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
  16. …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
    comment by airstrike · 2025-01-31 · in Developers should embrace creative coding again
  17. …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
  18. …where performance absolutely matters and a fine grained level of control over the UI is desired. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by airstrike · 2024-12-28 · in Bottles to be rewritten in Rust and libcosmic
  19. …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…
    comment by airstrike · 2024-10-16 · in Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. 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
  24. …"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
  25. …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
  26. 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
  27. 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++.
    comment by gaganyaan · 2024-06-15 · in I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust
  28. …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
  29. …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
  30. …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…
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2023-06-30 · in Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
  31. …Cargo.toml https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/blob/main/Cargo.toml It seems to use iced gui toolkit https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-06-30 · in Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
  32. Looks like https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by tekknolagi · 2023-06-30 · in Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
  33. …to improve it. And as the Iced repo[1] itself says, "Iced is currently experimental software". 1: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by 16bitvoid · 2023-05-19 · in Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic
  34. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced Doesn’t seem to be.
    comment by mrunkel · 2023-05-19 · in Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic
  35. 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
  36. This has already been merged into iced, which is now a default UI framework for PopOS: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/1697
    comment by erlend_sh · 2023-03-03 · in Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling
  37. 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
  38. …[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
  39. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
    comment by flippinburgers · 2023-02-08 · in Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again
  40. 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
  41. …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?
  42. 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
  43. …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…
    comment by lelanthran · 2022-05-26 · in Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams
  44. …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.
    comment by sam0x17 · 2022-05-25 · in Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams
  45. …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:…
    comment by hkmaxpro · 2022-01-14 · in Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
  46. …comment. Anyway although a11y and i18n support have not been implemented, they are planned. https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/250
    comment by CameronNemo · 2022-01-13 · in Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
  47. …Rust Is there a reason iced is not good enough (other than not being accessible)? https://iced.rs/ https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552
    comment by CameronNemo · 2022-01-13 · in Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
  48. …pleased to report the situation has improved, although on Linux my initial attempt landed me here: https://github.com/hecrj/iced/issues/1013 I've had no issues with Iced on any other platforms, fwiw.
    comment by ComputerGuru · 2021-08-27 · in Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
  49. …for web [1] and native [2]. The project's ECOSYSTEM.md [3] is addressing this in more detail. [1] https://github.com/hecrj/iced/tree/master/web [2] https://github.com/hecrj/iced/tree/master/wgpu [3] https://github.com/hecrj/iced/blob/master…
    comment by fosefx · 2021-08-27 · in Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
  50. …part of the solution to the problem you've outlined. [0]: https://cryptowat.ch/apps/desktop [1]: https://github.com/hecrj/iced/
    comment by clarkmoody · 2021-08-27 · in I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple