SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust

Héctor Ramón Jiménez , creator of iced, an Elm-inspired, cross-platform GUI toolkit for Rust, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building a GUI library in Rust. Héctor discusses why he created iced, what was needed, the process required to paint on the screen across different operating systems, how multi-operating systems are handled, and what the iced testing ecosystem is like. This episode explores the Elm architecture, how iced compares to other frameworks, what the core components of iced are, Elements, asynchronous functions, state, threads, 3d rendering, headless mode testing, end-to-end testing, test recorders, runtime emulators, ice test syntax, example apps, tiny-skia, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, winit, wgpu, egui, tauri, comet, and why Android and iOS support is hard.

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SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust is an episode from Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers by SE-Radio Team.

This episode is 59:09 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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