gtk-rs: newest and future developments
Progress report on GTK+ Rust bindings
- Track: Rust devroom
- Room: UD2.208 (Decroly)
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 14:20
- End: 14:45
A tour on newest and future developments for gtk-rs, the Rust bindings to GTK+.
Agenda
Introduction:
- Small presentation of Gtk-rs project.
- Small code demonstration.
Last year developments:
- Add of futures to handle asynchronous function calls.
- Generation of union types.
- A lot of new types/functions generated.
Next developments:
- Generate bindings for functions/methods taking callbacks as argument.
- Long run: being able to "subclass" widgets.
- Global API improvements as always!
- Generate sys crates documentation on gtk-rs.org as well?
gtk-rs ecosystem:
- A lot of projects are starting to use gtk-rs, two of them are part of the ten most active GNOME projects on gitlab (Fractal - https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal - and Podcasts - https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Podcasts).
- Some (nice) API are built upon it like relm (https://github.com/antoyo/relm).
Question time!
Speakers
Guillaume Gomez |