Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 2: GObject in Rust — The Type System Explained

This is Part 2 of a series taking a GNOME app from an empty directory to GNOME Circle. Part 1 covered the why and the dev environment. The app we’re building Throughout this series, we’ll be building Gazette — an RSS reader. I picked it because it naturally exercises every pattern a non-trivial GNOME app needs: networking, data persistence, list/detail UI, adaptive layouts, settings, and state management. You don’t need to build an RSS reader to follow along — the patterns are universal. ...

April 12, 2026 · 7 min · Justin