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What sets Seed apart from other Rust front-end frameworks? Is the Elm-like approach unique in that space?

Unique or not, I bet it makes working with the borrow-checker a whole lot easier

Yew and Sauron also exist which use the MVU pattern like Elm. Percy might also, not sure about that. Seed has a less React-inspired interface.

Author of sauron here, Yes sauron[0] is very much elm-like than any of the other rust framework, and it's very fast. How fast? Fast enough to be used in a text-editor[1] at ~15ms typing latency. It also suited application that has recurring events such as animation[2]

It also supports server-side rendering, and is used in one of my other opensource project svgbob[3]

[0]: https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron

[1]: https://ivanceras.github.io/ultron/

[2]: https://ivanceras.github.io/futuristic-ui/

[3]: https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

Is sauron ready for production in your opinion?

I've been using it in production for svgbob. There have been a lot of breaking changes for the past month, but things are starting to stabilize[0] in the 0.43.x release. Hopefully the version stays at 0.43.x and no more breaking changes, due to using better, appropriate or more descriptive names in Struct and functions.

[0]: https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron/blob/master/Changelog.md

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