The goal of this talk is to provide an introduction to the gtk bindings in Rust through the gtk-rs organization. It'll be mainly about how we made it and how we keep making it better.

• Presentation of gtk-rs (before it was even an organization)
  • Beginning: rust <-> C direct binding, no indirection, almost no safety
  • Generation of signals through (old) macro system
  • Old closures system to allow callbacks
  • Short (old) code demonstration
• Creation of gtk-rs
  • multi-repository
  • easier to maintain, more difficult to release
  • licensing issues: keeping docs in their own repository and write a tool to put it back
• New gtk-rs era: automatic generation
  • GIR crate
  • Parsing gir files and automatically generate as much as possible
  • Presentation of the crate, how it works and the hierarchy
  • A lot of things are simplified: doc generation, website, releases
• gtk-rs growth
  • more members
  • (semi) automatic release process
  • a lot more of bindings (sourceview, pangocairo, webkit...)
• gtk-rs environment
  • a few projects (process viewer, EDI, tools...)
  • relm crate to easily write GTK UIs
  • GNOME-class
  • gstreamer-rs
• Future of gtk-rs
  • async
  • tutorials
  • more projects
  • more rust in GNOME libraries (librsvg already started this port)