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+title = "This Month in Xilem, June 2024"
+authors = ["Daniel McNab"]
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+Following on from May, Olivier wrote and published a [report](@/blog/2024-06-15-rustnl-2024-unconference.md) on our experience of the RustNL unconference.
+This led to some useful discussion online - see [the zulip thread](https://xi.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/181284-blogging/topic/Draft.20-.20Report.20on.20the.20RustNL.202024.20Conference/near/444974910) corresponding with that post for links.
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+We released [Vello 0.2.0][] at the start of the month, which included some key improvements discussed in previous months' updates.
+In June, we landed some initial handling of Emoji ([vello#615][]), which supports glyphs which use the COLR specification.
+Some in-flight work includes an enhanced testing setup ([vello#610][]), GPU memory allocation ([vello#606][]) robustness, and improved correctness for some unusual strokes ([vello#607][]).
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+<figure>
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+<img src="Xilem Emoji Picker.png" alt="Screenshot of an app, containing a 4x4 grid of labelled Emoji, zoom in and out buttons and pagination controls. 'cat face with wry smile' is selected" height="1132" width = "863">
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+<figcaption>
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+A new Emoji viewer example ([xilem#420][]) running on Android.
+This example currently only works for systems with COLR system emoji, such as some Android systems.
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+</figcaption>
+</figure>
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+[xilem#310][] brought in some new ideas about how Xilem Core can be structured, to move away from the macro heavy design used previously.
+I believe that this has additional advantages for specialised `View` types, such as OS windows, although this is yet to be integrated.
+Support for the `Adapt` views built on this has enabled an elm<!-- TODO: Capitalisation? --> -inspired example for Xilem in [xilem#401][], showing the flexibility of the Xilem architecture.
+Our observability support has also been improved, with automatic tracing to a file in debug builds added in [xilem#384][].
+In the near term, our focus will be on integration with async Rust, for features such as timers and network interaction.
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+However, there has also been excellent community engagement with Xilem in June.
+Veniamin Ilmer has created a [Minesweeper game](https://github.com/veniamin-ilmer/minesweeper_xilem/) using Xilem.
+The discussion on Zulip (in [#xilem > Minesweeper converted from Iced to Xilem](https://xi.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/354396-xilem/topic/Minesweeper.20converted.20from.20Iced.20to.20Xilem)) has been very useful in guiding areas for improvement.
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+Philipp Mildenberger has been prolific in their work on Xilem, as a co-author of the new Xilem Core, and in adapting Xilem Web to use it.
+They also worked to bring support for `OneOf` views to Xilem Core in [xilem#394][] - these were previously only supported in Xilem Web.
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+We are now in the final month of the [May-July 2024 roadmap](@/blog/2024-06-15-rustnl-2024-unconference.md).
+In the intervening time much of the work has been started or completed, although there have been some changes of priorities.
+I expect that we will soon be looking at prioritising items on our [long-term roadmap](@/wiki/long-term-roadmap.md).
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+[xilem#420]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/420
+[xilem#394]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/394
+[vello 0.2.0]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/releases/tag/v0.2.0
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+[vello#606]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/606
+[vello#607]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/607
+[vello#610]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/610
+[vello#615]: https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/615