cxx-qt: how a Qt codebase becomes a Rust codebase without rewriting

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0500

Rewriting a shipping Qt application in Rust is how you turn a working product into a two-year migration project that never quite converges, because the UI was never the problem, the logic was, and yet the rewrite always seems to start by throwing the UI away first. The question worth answering is a narrower one: how do you move the interesting code into Rust while the QML, the Kirigami pages, and the designer’s muscle memory stay exactly where they are?

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cxx-qt: how a Qt codebase becomes a Rust codebase without rewriting