Post-mortem for work on Xilem in 2024

Last year, Google funded me to work on the Linebender ecosystem , a group of projects aiming to improve user interface design in the Rust programming language . I was one of several people to get such funding , and my specific focus was the Xilem crate (and later Masonry). As 2025 begins, I’d like to take some time to reflect on the work accomplished so far, and how it compares to what we intended…