A new toolkit enables JavaScript developers to create native user interfaces for embedded and desktop applications. The Rust-based UI toolkit recently won first place in the tooling category at the 2023 Embedded World conference.

But it was easy to support Rust in the application because it’s the implementation language.

Slint compiles the application to run natively on embedded devices, or on https://thenewstack.io/rust-in-the-linux-kernel/, https://thenewstack.io/apple-disposing-traces-of-intel-in-mac-with-new-chip-os/, and https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-for-windows/ desktops.

In fact, some in the industry already use JavaScript by placing a browser on the embedded system, he added.

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