Qt Bridges is a new public beta bridging technology that lets Rust developers build UIs using Qt Quick without writing any C++. It exposes Qt's mature, production-tested UI framework — used in automotive dashboards, medical devices, and industrial systems — to Rust via attribute macros and traits. The bridge generates native Qt wrappers for Rust types at compile time, handles ownership/aliasing differences between Rust and QML's JavaScript object model using Rc<RefCell<T>>, and provides hardware acceleration plus cross-platform support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Setup requires adding the qtbridge crate as a dependency and having a C++ toolchain and qmake on PATH, though user code itself is entirely C++-free. The project is currently in public beta with a Technology Preview planned next.
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