Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust

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Makepad builds a GPU-powered UI stack in Rust with a live-editable DSL bound to Rust structs via a proc macro, shipping a synthesizer demo, animated code folding in an IDE, and pixel shaders for per-pixel styling. Native backends target Windows DirectX, Linux OpenGL, macOS Metal, Web (WebGL/WebAssembly with threads) and Android; demos run at 120 Hz, clean full-stack builds take about 5 seconds, and an Android SDK stripper creates a ~150MB toolchain. WebAssembly hits memory limits for many UIs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:21Rust is fast: SIMD Mandelbrot
3. 7:49Ironfish Desktop
4. 10:46Visual design

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