Repo brief: iced-rs/iced

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Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

• Last commit 1d ago
• 9 active contributors
• MIT licensed
• CI configured
• 1 more receipt on the live page

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What it is

Iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust that implements a reactive, Elm-inspired architecture for building user interfaces on Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web. It provides type-safe, stateful UI composition with built-in widgets (text inputs, scrollables, etc.), dual renderers (wgpu for GPU acceleration and tiny-skia for software fallback), and first-class async support via futures. Monorepo with a modular ecosystem: core/src/ contains foundational types (alignment, animation, color, events, fonts, layout); src/application.rs and src/daemon.rs define the runtime architecture; separate crates (iced_wgpu, iced_tiny_skia, iced_winit) provide renderers and windowing; beacon/ offers…

Start here

Open these first:

• src/lib.rs — Main crate entry point exposing the public API for the Iced GUI framework.
• core/src/lib.rs — Core module containing fundamental abstractions (Element, Widget, Renderer) shared across the framework.
• core/src/widget.rs — Defines the Widget trait and tree structure—the foundation for all UI components in Iced.
• src/application.rs — Application lifecycle management and message-update loop, implementing Elm-inspired architecture.
• core/src/renderer.rs — Renderer abstraction defining how UI is drawn, with backends selectable at compile-time (wgpu, tiny-skia).

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Verify the root Cargo.toml for workspace setup, then clone: git clone https://github.com/iced-rs/iced.git && cd iced. Check Cargo.lock and root Cargo.toml for workspace member configuration, then build with `cargo bui…

Daily commands:

No traditional dev server (desktop native app framework). Instead: cargo build to compile, cargo run --example <name> to launch example GUIs, cargo test to run test suite. For debug mode with metrics: enable the '…

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Key cautions & unknowns

• Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 85% of recent commits
• Feature flags are tightly coupled to renderer/platform support: enabling wgpu requires picking at least one backend (Vulkan/Metal/DX12/OpenGL), defaulting to all. The debug/time-travel features are marked 'very…
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests

Evidence note

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