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gtk-rs
gtk3-rs
Rust2022–2022
gtk-rs / gtk3-rs

gtk3-rs

Rust bindings for GTK 3

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What to know before exploring

What it is

Rust bindings for GTK 3

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Modern versions of GTK+ support Rust, Python and Javascript. I love GNOME, but I think there's a decent group of people that would like a Rust-based GTK+ desktop environment.…

sph used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-04-08 08:47:41 UTC to 2022-09-10 06:41:00 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012022-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 42022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 202022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 5

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

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 42022-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 112022-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182022-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 252022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC000
May 22022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC000
May 232022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC000
May 302022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 272022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 42022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 112022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 182022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 152022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 222022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 292022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 52022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
cyber_kinetist·Sep 10, 2022
Elementary is heavily dependent on the GTK ecosystem, which has its own OOP system implemented in C (for example like GObject). It is really hard to map GTK's OOP semantics to Rust. People have tried things like https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs, but it requires heavy macro usage and doesn't feel like ergonomic Rust. On the other hand Vala is directly built upon the GObject system on the first place, so it's more fitting for GTK-specific development.
In Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)

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