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DAW frontend development struggles

Billy Messenger:

Essentially I've really underestimated how difficult it would be to develop the frontend/GUI of Meadowlark. Not just with how complicated a DAW’s [Digital Audio Workstation] GUI is, but also in finding a GUI library that is actually suitable for the task.

I want to use this blog post to do three things. First I want to highlight why this is such a hard problem. Second I want to share my thoughts on the current state of Rust's GUI library ecosystem. And third I want to share some potential paths I can take for the future of Meadowlark.

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