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Are We Desktop Yet? Challenges and stories of writing a desktop environment in Rust

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Rust has proven its uses in various applications and is no stranger in the linux ecosystem as well, being used for various cli-tools, daemons and recently even kernel development. But historically speaking Rust has had a set of challenges when it came to graphical user-interfaces. So what happens when you attempt to write an entire new desktop environment in Rust? This is the story of the development of COSMIC, a new linux desktop environment developed by System76. About the particular challeng

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