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by IshKebab 740 days ago
> Rust is between 14 and 18 years old now.

Rust 1.0 was released 9 years ago (the language wasn't stable and hardly anyone used it before that). 9 years is a tiny amount of time to develop a Qt-level GUI toolkit.

Go 1.0 was released 12 years ago and it still doesn't have one.

I think you're vastly underestimating the enormity of the task.

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!remindme 10 years.

I don't think folks wait for v1 to start GUI projects.

And regardless if we're talking specifically about GUI or not (original parent wasn't):

> ...reinvent the wheel in some package to lay claim, and then abandon it when its 70% there once they get bored...

I think Rust is too niche to appeal to the masses and the community suffers from a RiR syndrome that tends to produce less than high quality projects on average. Because delivering high quality v1s takes a lot of effort and sweat. It is not fun.