I really think this is the single most substantial reason as to why desktop linux has sucked for so long.
I was following your comment until the end - I don't have any probems with Rust but how will that help the situation?
I was following your comment until the end - I don't have any probems with Rust but how will that help the situation?
> I do research on fundamental UI technology and 2D graphics, with a focus on Rust and fonts. Currently on the Google Fonts team.
Rust also addresses many of my grievances with GTK and C++, notably the need to bolt on (although "bolt on" seems to imply less fragility than is the case) language features to give a higher level facade or otherwise deal with the deeply impoverished C and C++ build tools. Related to the previous point, Rust makes it much easier to bring in a dependency and write tests. Similarly, Rust benefits from a long tail of minor tooling improvements including documentation generation and hosting to text editor integration (Qt ships their own IDE which is of decent quality, but you have to go all-in on it; you don't get to use the plugins, keybindings, etc that you know and love from vscode / vim / emacs /etc and even then IIRC it only knows about things in the Qt project but not necessarily third party libraries--although with enough blood, sweat, and tears you can probably cobble together something based on clang metadata).
[0]: https://github.com/linebender/druid [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raphlinus
It's just a hard problem and its a boring, loveless space to work in.