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by PoignardAzur 1229 days ago
> I can't find anything that has all the features I want, so I start a new one, which potentially never becomes stable

The "potentially never stable" part is fair to worry about, but I disagree with the "start a new one" part.

While I do want to work on another UI library (Panoramix), this isn't what this post announces. The goal of Masonry is to promote code reuse. In my ideal scenarios, other libraries such as Xilem, Iced, SlintUI, etc... might come to rely on Masonry as their backend.

In fact, the "xkcd 927" problem is why I started Masonry in the first place: because I saw there were a lot of Rust GUI frameworks, but there was no crate that gave you a base to build a GUI framework from.

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I really hope you succeed. Sounds like it's a missing part of the eco system and your plan and thought sounds great to me.