Héctor Ramón Jiménez
Software developer and creator of the iced GUI toolkit for Rust, known for building an Elm-inspired cross-platform GUI library and working on its development and ecosystem.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 59min
SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust
Héctor Ramón Jiménez, creator of the iced GUI toolkit for Rust, built an Elm-inspired, cross-platform UI library. He talks about why iced exists, the rendering pipeline from elements to pixels, core pieces like winit, wgpu and TinySkia, async tasks for non-blocking UI, headless mode for testing, the test recorder and runtime emulator, and the challenges of mobile support and accessibility.
Mar 25, 2026 • 59min
SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust
Héctor Ramón Jiménez, creator of iced and longtime GUI and rendering developer, talks about building a cross-platform GUI toolkit in Rust. He covers iced’s Elm-inspired architecture, rendering pipeline from elements to pixels, GPU and CPU backends, async task handling to avoid UI blocking, headless testing, end-to-end test recorders and emulators, and the challenges of mobile support.
