Native GUIs with Rust

There is a ton of GUI libraries for Rust, including some well-known ones written in other languages such as C++ wrapped for Rust. Many platforms target browser rendering engines for display, some even bringing their own with full HTML/CSS and some JS support. The upside is that this allows to target both desktop and mobile. But the resulting binaries are huge and complex interfaces easily become sluggish. Going for one of the classics like Qt, wich is written in C++, introduces a rather significant unsafe layer and all sorts of other quirks. I set out on a journey to find a native Rust-based solution for desktop that would result in small-ish binaries, does not require an entire browser rendering engine, and possibly allows static linking all the way down to libc, i.e. musl. -Sebastian