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I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ColdWater@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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From what I saw Cosmic has a lot of potential and looks pretty sleek too, right now I'm using KDE it's a great desktop, but now that I have a second monitor it randomly crashes on me, I think I'll switch to Cosmic when it reaches beta.

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Qt and gtk both have rust bindings though?

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 12 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Yep, but QT's object model and its being written in C++ makes it super cumbersome to use in Rust. GTK is better here due to it being written in C, but the direction it's taking in GTK4 is not really great, and having a safe Rust UI toolkit is a huge win for the community.

Cosmic being fully Rust means I can just take one project from them, and immediately start working on it with cargo and all the familiar tools. It's not as easy with C or C++ projects in Gnome and KDE.

I think it's great we have some competition in this space, everybody wins.

[–] imecth@fedia.io -1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I think this rust only thing is gonna screw them on the long term. You really don't want that for app development, it might be a good choice for low level stuff and security sensitive things like browsers; but other than that you're severely hampering your contribution sources and increasing the development time. Color me skeptic but I see this going the same way unity did.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

They use Rust for app dev already. Pretty sure they know what they are biting off.

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