--- title: This Month in Linebender, September 2024 | daily.dev description: A monthly progress roundup from the Linebender open-source organization covering Rust GUI projects. Xilem gained new views and a lens shorthand pattern.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-linebender-september-2024-c8lkiednf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Month in Linebender, September 2024 | daily.dev og:description: A monthly progress roundup from the Linebender open-source organization covering Rust GUI projects. Xilem gained new views and a lens shorthand pattern.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-linebender-september-2024-c8lkiednf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c8lKIeDnf.png og:image:alt: This Month in Linebender, September 2024 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. # This Month in Linebender, September 2024 **[Linebender](https://daily.dev/sources/linebender)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A monthly progress roundup from the Linebender open-source organization covering Rust GUI projects. Xilem gained new views and a lens shorthand pattern. Masonry, the underlying widget system, wrapped up its accessibility pass specification project and merged improvements including grid layout, scroll request restoration, more efficient pointer dispatching, and screen reader support for textboxes, with ongoing work on Wayland client-side decorations and an SVG-like positioning widget. Vello, the GPU vector renderer, dropped its ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is Vello still considered an experimental project? No, Vello is no longer labeled experimental as of the changes merged in pull request 691 during September. However, it remains in alpha status with several known issues, so developers should still expect instability and incomplete features before relying on it in production. _Track GPU renderer maturity milestones like this on daily.dev before adopting Vello in a project._ ### What is Masonry in the Xilem Rust GUI framework? Masonry is the retained widget tree system that underlies Xilem, providing a non-opinionated base layer for building higher-level GUI frameworks in Rust. It handles widgets such as text inputs, images, and grid layouts, and recently gained screen reader support for its textbox widget along with a largely completed accessibility pass specification. _Developers evaluating Rust GUI stacks follow Masonry's widget progress on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-linebender-september-2024-c8lkiednf) ```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":"This Month in Linebender, September 2024","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-linebender-september-2024-c8lkiednf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-linebender-september-2024-c8lkiednf"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T05:54:35.426Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T05:55:15.902Z","description":"A monthly progress roundup from the Linebender open-source organization covering Rust GUI projects. 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