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kas-gui/kas

Another GUI toolkit observed · 2026-09-03

github.com/kas-gui/kas · Rust · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-09-03

Health v2 · maintenance only

80/100

  • Activity 100
  • Release rhythm 44
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 128
  • age_days: 2504
  • days_rel: 217
  • days_push: 0
  • n_releases_24m: 4

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1029 stars · 31 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

KAS is a pure-Rust GUI toolkit providing stateful widgets with automatic layout, theming, and accessibility support. It aims to make simple UIs easy to build while allowing complex custom widgets, producing fast monolithic binaries.

Use cases

  • build a desktop gui application in rust
  • create cross-platform ui with stateful widgets
  • make an accessible gui with keyboard navigation and screen reader support
  • render complex text with bidi and font fallback in a rust app
  • build a gui that compiles to wasm for the browser
  • implement custom widgets with automatic layout and scaling

When to choose

  • you want a pure-Rust GUI toolkit without C/C++ bindings
  • you need stateful widgets, automatic layout, and pixel-perfect scaling
  • accessibility (keyboard, screen readers) and complex text support matter
  • you want fast, monolithic binaries or wasm targets

When to avoid

  • you need a mature, battle-tested toolkit with a large widget ecosystem
  • you need integrated internationalization support (not yet implemented)
  • you prefer immediate-mode or declarative web-style UI paradigms
  • you need mobile platform support

Facets

library · maturity active

gui ui-components graphics desktop-applications cross-platform web-development rust cross-platform wasm gui-toolkit stateful-widgets pure-rust accessibility text-rendering themes desktop

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
kas-gui/kasmain80

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