Allen Wyma talks with Tobias Hunger, developer on Slint. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display. Slint has just made a 1.0 release.

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Timestamps

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 04:02 - Slint updates and progress from the previous interview
• 06:15 - Upgrades that came along releasing of Slint 1.0
• 11:12 - Bugs fixed in Slint 1.0
• 12:43 - Stability, improved tooling and other key features in the Slint upgrade
• 15:34 - Multi-window support
• 18:26 - Screen reader accessibility and keyboard shortcut in Slint
• 22:04 - Raspberry Pi Pico and Zero 2 W
• 24:21 - Rust support, line buffering and graphics acceleration
• 26:10 - Other UIs that are out in the Rust space
• 27:17 - Handling bugs and feature reports
• 29:10 - Slint documentation
• 34:02 - Patch files
• 37:16 - Plans for the 1.1 release
• 38:51 - Interesting ways users used Slint API
• 40:30 - Slint users and Rust community feedback
• 43:35 - Requiring that users have a Rust compiler installed
• 46:31 - Programming with Rust vs C, C++
• 48:33 - Tobias’ great experience with the Rust community

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma