Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath
This is a bonus post in the series taking a GNOME app from an empty directory to GNOME Circle. It sits between Part 3 and Part 4 — read it if you want context, skip it if you want code. By the end of Part 3 you had a running GTK 4 + libadwaita app with five trait implementations, a mod imp block, an adw::Application parent class, a meson.build next to your Cargo.toml, and a Flatpak manifest pinning a runtime version. None of those decisions arrived in 2026 fully formed. Each is a fossil of a specific argument that took years to settle. ...