--- title: Retrospective on the May-July roadmap | daily.dev description: Linebender reviews progress against its May-July roadmap for Rust GUI projects Vello, Masonry, Parley, Xilem, and AccessKit. Highlights include shipping... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Retrospective on the May-July roadmap | daily.dev og:description: Linebender reviews progress against its May-July roadmap for Rust GUI projects Vello, Masonry, Parley, Xilem, and AccessKit. Highlights include shipping... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mBFKIy8nm.png og:image:alt: Retrospective on the May-July roadmap 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. # Retrospective on the May-July roadmap **[Linebender](https://daily.dev/sources/linebender)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linebender reviews progress against its May-July roadmap for Rust GUI projects Vello, Masonry, Parley, Xilem, and AccessKit. Highlights include shipping reliable snapshot tests and repository restructuring in Vello, Android bringup and async integration work in Xilem, and inline block layout progress in Parley, while documentation and testing goals across projects lagged behind plan. The team also lists unplanned contributions such as multi-layer blending in Vello, gap support in Masonry's flexbox, and community-contributed Xilem examples, and flags harfruzz as a promising future text-shaping direction. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Retrospective on the May-July roadmap","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T05:54:37.756Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T05:55:41.629Z","description":"Linebender reviews progress against its May-July roadmap for Rust GUI projects Vello, Masonry, Parley, Xilem, and AccessKit. Highlights include shipping...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Linebender","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Linebender","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/linebender"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/retrospective-on-the-may-july-roadmap-mbfkiy8nm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,android,rust","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Linebender","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/linebender"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Retrospective on the May-July roadmap"}]} ```