--- title: Introducing Translation Infrastructure in Slint — Slint Blog description: Slint version 1.1 introduces a translation infrastructure powered by the `@tr(...)` macro and backed by the Gettext library. The macro handles string lookup... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-translation-infrastructure-in-slint-slint-blog-c4cuubzyk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Translation Infrastructure in Slint — Slint Blog | daily.dev og:description: Slint version 1.1 introduces a translation infrastructure powered by the `@tr(...)` macro and backed by the Gettext library. The macro handles string lookup... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-translation-infrastructure-in-slint-slint-blog-c4cuubzyk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c4CuUbzyK.png og:image:alt: Introducing Translation Infrastructure in Slint — Slint Blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing Translation Infrastructure in Slint — Slint Blog **[Slint](https://daily.dev/sources/slint)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Slint version 1.1 introduces a translation infrastructure powered by the `@tr(...)` macro and backed by the Gettext library. The macro handles string lookup and variable interpolation, including plural forms. The post explains why Gettext was chosen over Mozilla's Fluent project — primarily because Gettext keeps original English strings visible in source code rather than using opaque message identifiers, improving readability and tooling (e.g., grep). A POT file extractor is provided for use with standard translation tools like Poedit, OmegaT, and Transifex. Future plans include a pure-Rust Gettext reimplementation, compile-time translations for no_std targets, runtime language switching, and localized number/date formatting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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