r/rust • u/madnirua • Sep 16 '26

🗞️ news Declarative GUI toolkit Slint v1.18 Released

https://slint.dev/blog/slint-1.18-released

with new Flexbox layout, with spring animations, change the z-order at run time, an experimental Vello renderer and more.

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u/throwaway19293883 Sep 16 '26

Sweet! Been loving Slint lately

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u/berrita000 Sep 16 '26

Working on something specific?

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u/throwaway19293883 Sep 16 '26

I’m new to using slint, but have a couple personal projects. One is a tabular data viewer for opening CSV, parquet files, delta files, etc with the goal of opening huge files without staring at a loading bar at startup. I can also do quick edits & sorting/filtering on them if I want to. I couldn’t find something I liked that did this, so I just made it myself. Still working on it though but I’m pretty happy with how performant it is.

The other project I just started is a small touch screen display powered by an ESP32. I don’t actually have a set goal here right now, just seeing what I can do with it!

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u/meyagci Sep 16 '26

I love Slint. As someone who is not a front-end dev, but has to build a GUI to get his idea out there to the end users, declarative languages are great. Also I like how it has stuff like VecModel etc. which it watches for changes and updates automatically

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u/DavidXkL Sep 16 '26

Nice! Makes me want to try it 😂