This Month In Xilem, May 2024 (#54)

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+title = "This Month in Xilem, May 2024"
+authors = ["Daniel McNab"]
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+Several members of Linebender attended [RustNL][] at the start of May.
+Raph gave a talk titled *Xilem: Let's Build High Performance Rust UI* ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/OvfNipIcRiQ)).
+The conference also provided a great opportunity to meet with developers from other Rust user interface projects;
+Olivier has produced a report on the unconference, which will be published here shortly.
+In addition, those in attendance met after the conference and worked on a roadmap for Linebender, which we are also planning to share here.
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+We have taken several important steps on Xilem.
+At the start of the month, we released [Xilem 0.1.0][] and [Masonry 0.2.0][].
+This is the first published release of Xilem, and includes text input ([xilem#241][]), AccessKit integration ([xilem#244][]) and a TodoMVC inspired example ([xilem#257][]).
+Work through the rest of the month included explorations of a generic `View` trait ([xilem#310][]), and an Android port ([xilem#309][], [xilem#313]).
+[rfcs#6][] is designed to reduce boilerplate when using Masonry, which should help those creating custom Masonry widgets.
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+Other Linebender projects have seen steady improvements.
+[vello#575][] significantly reduced shader compilation time at startup for projects using Vello, and [vello#516][] enabled clearer error handling.
+Nico Burns has started an exciting project for inline box layout ([parley#67][]), which will enable Parley to be used in projects which must implement Web layout.
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+[rustnl]: https://2024.rustnl.org/
+[Xilem 0.1.0]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/releases/tag/v0.1.0
+[Masonry 0.2.0]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/releases/tag/masonry%2Fv0.2.0
+[xilem#241]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/241
+[xilem#244]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/244
+[xilem#257]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/257
+[xilem#310]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/310
+[xilem#309]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/309
+[xilem#313]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/313
+[rfcs#6]: https://github.com/linebender/rfcs/pull/6
+[vello#575]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/575
+[vello#516]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/516
+[parley#67]: https://github.com/linebender/parley/pull/67