Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 27 · Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026

Slint 1.17 released

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What changed: The community released Slint 1.17, a GUI toolkit.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Add slint = "1.17" to a Cargo project and build a simple UI.
Source: this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/07/01/this-week-in-rust-658/

Understand it, then run it

Slint 1.17 is a new release of the Slint GUI toolkit. The toolkit lets you build desktop user interfaces in Rust. With this release you can start using the latest features and bug fixes that the community added. If you want to create a window with a button, Slint gives you a simple way to describe the UI in a .slint file and bind it to Rust code.

Run it now

Todayrust

// This program demonstrates that Slint 1.17 is a GUI toolkit crate.
// It does not compile because Slint is not part of the standard library
// and the sandbox has no external dependencies.  The code below
// simply prints a message explaining the purpose of Slint.

fn main() {
    println!("Slint 1.17 is a GUI toolkit for Rust.  It lets you build desktop UIs by describing them in .slint files and binding them to Rust code.");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

Slint 1.17 is a GUI toolkit for Rust.  It lets you build desktop UIs by describing them in .slint files and binding them to Rust code.

Run sends this program (for Solidity, the contract and its tests) to our own sandbox, where it is compiled and run once, with no network, and what it printed or the test report comes back here. Nothing is kept. Runs are counted per visitor for the day so everyone gets a turn; the details are on the legal page.

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