Emil Ernerfeldt
Emil Ernerfeldt is a programmer and creator of open-source tools for Rust, focusing on GUI development (egui) and data visualization for physical AI (Rerun).
AI Tools by Emil Ernerfeldt
(1)egui
Rust GUI Library for Web and Native
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Latest News
Rerun crossed 1,000,000 crate downloads
Podcast: Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt
Rerun raises $18M Series A to build the data stack for Physical AI
Rerun 0.32 Release - Unified data layer for robotics
Products & Services
A simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. Known for being easy to use and running on both web (WASM) and native.
A visualization SDK and data layer for physical AI, robotics, and computer vision. Built using Rust and egui.
A 2D physics sandbox for education and entertainment, featuring interactive physics simulations.
A human-friendly config format written in Rust, designed for ease of editing and readability.
Market Position
egui is a leading choice for Rust-native GUIs alongside Dear ImGui, Slint, and Iced. Rerun provides a specialized visualization stack for physical AI, competing with general-purpose tools like Foxglove.
Leadership
Founders
Emil Ernerfeldt
Computer scientist and programmer with over 20 years of experience. Creator of the egui library, co-founder of Rerun, and creator of the Phun physics sandbox. Previously at Embark Studios, Distil Networks, Volumental, Arrowhead Game Studios, and Algoryx Simulation. Master's in Computing Science from Umeå University.
Executive Team
Emil Ernerfeldt
Creator & CTO
Co-founder of Rerun and lead developer of egui.
Founding Story
Emil started writing Rust in 2014 and developed egui as a side project to solve the need for a simple Rust GUI library. He later co-founded Rerun to tackle the challenges of visualizing complex multimodal data in robotics and computer vision.
Business Model
Revenue Model
GitHub Sponsors and commercial product offerings through Rerun (Rerun Hub).
Pricing Tiers
The egui library and Rerun SDK are available under open-source licenses.
Advanced data catalog and storage solutions for enterprise robotics teams.
Target Markets
- Building tools and debuggers in Rust
- Visualizing robotics and computer vision data
- Educational physics simulations
- Human-readable configuration management