181
COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)
submitted 10 months ago by mmstick@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why develop libcosmic around iced instead of going with something else modern that's easy to develop in such as Flutter? Iced/libcosmic is probably a bit more efficient resource-wise but that probably wasn't a huge point.

[-] mmstick@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That would compromise our vision of a GUI platform built from the ground up in Rust. It would also not be feasible to use Flutter for applet development. We can easily make modifications directly to iced for all the Wayland integrations that we need in COSMIC, as the iced code base is very lean, and written in Rust.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Got it. So being written in Rust is one of the requirements. Makes sense. Flutter is great for self-contained applications but we can definitely use another sane native toolkit besides Qt that has wider applicability.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
181 points (98.9% liked)

Linux

48080 readers
771 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS