Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle | Hacker News
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A Hacker News post highlighted Rust and the Slint UI toolkit running on a jailbroken Kindle.
A commenter said they also built Rust/Slint for a RISC-V LicheeRV Nano using a custom cross-compilation Docker image.
The same setup was used while testing battery hardware for a portable audio player, underscoring embedded power-management challenges.
The example shows modern Rust UI tooling is workable on constrained devices, including embedded Linux targets with musl.



