# anomalyco/rune

> A native Rust UI framework with its own GPU renderer, text, layout and springs for macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. Apps can run headless, letting agents render to PNG and drive the UI with scripted input.

- Magnitude: 6.7 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 5,192 total · +92 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–02:08 UTC, ≈ 1,124 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Web & frontend · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-22 · Last push: 2026-11-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/anomalyco/rune · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/anomalyco/rune

## Useful for

- Build a cross-platform desktop app in Rust with GPU rendering
- Verify UI headlessly by rendering PNGs and inspecting the element tree
- Hand the repo to a coding agent to build an interface and self-check the result

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–02:08: 5100 → 5192 stars (+92). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +1,124 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 4.6× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- The repository is 18 days old and already has 5,192 stars.
- Top new repositories this month: #29.
- Hacker News: “Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web” — 177 points, 2 days ago.
- About 30 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 157
- Issues and pull requests: 344
- Watchers: 17
- Average over the last week: 827 per day
- Usual pace: 37 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 47

## Stars per day, last 19 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-22 … 2026-11-09: 19, 42, 7, 7, 4, 7, 37, 295, 61, 24, 18, 14, 4, 9, 546, 1748, 1194, 1162, 92

## Magnitude by day, last 4 days

11-06 6.2, 11-07 7.5, 11-08 7.5, 11-09 6.7

## Hacker News

- Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web — 177 points, 131 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394569

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this month: #29
- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 02:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.