Build native desktop applications in Rust on Linux. This hands-on course walks you through five GUI frameworks — iced, FLTK, GTK4, relm4, and egui — on Kubuntu, building a portfolio of working applications: a counter, a calculator with unit tests, a to-do list, a Pong game, a password generator, Simon Says, and a quiz app. You will install Rust with rustup, configure Kate as a Rust editor with embedded terminal, and use cargo and clippy to build and lint each project. The course closes with patterns for production: choosing the right framework, persisting state to disk, keeping the UI responsive while data loads, and shipping a binary that runs on every Linux desktop.
Every demo is recorded in real time on a Kubuntu 24.04 workstation, so you see the full edit-compile-run loop, including dependency wiring and clippy warnings. By the end, you will have built eight working GUIs in Rust and know which framework to reach for when the browser is the wrong surface.
