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limn
Rust2017–2026
christolliday / limn · Archived

limn

Experimental cross platform GUI library

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
404GitHub stars
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What it is

Experimental cross platform GUI library

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-03 16:31:08 UTC to 2026-08-19 14:39:16 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> there's better alternatives than JavaFX (use Qt). I've recently written a decent-size Qt app (QtWidgets, not QML) and the problem is the language. C++ leaves a lot to be desired especially coming from higher level languages. If you look around at language bindings, the only quality one I can find is Python and I want to avoid that too (I don't want to build a large app in a dynamic lang). Couldn't use Go, I needed MSVC to interoperate. Rust bindings had drawbacks or were incomplete. Etc. (I probably need to revisit D's Qt binding) I just want a full-featured (i.e. not QML) widget framework in Rust, Go, D, or some other high-level non-VM cross-platform language. I'd even take C bindings because we can work from there. And I want the widgets to appear native. C# + WinForms would be great if it worked great on non-Windows and was easy to i
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nteroperate with third party C-level widgets. WxWidgets is C++ or dyn lang (though there was a C binding maintained by Haskell devs IIRC), Gtk doesn't look very native, etc. Widget-based desktop development will continue to lose to these alternatives while there is not a good widget library on a good sans-baggage language. Edit: Just saw https://github.com/christolliday/limn (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/73w227/limn_gui_libra...) ...a good start!
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