4 ms·
> What's annoying in this article is that it doesn't come right out and say that MS is considering offering a full Windows SDK with a Rust API. The closest I se
by ChrisSD 7y ago
> What's annoying in this article is that it doesn't come right out and say that MS is considering offering a full Windows SDK with a Rust API. The closest I see the article come to mentioning this is: "Exploring the use of a memory-safe language such as Rust would provide an alternative to creating safer Microsoft apps.
Creating a fully Rustified Windows API interface would be a massive task. The WinApi is vast and parts of it are ancient. It's practically a living history of Windows. And that's before you get to the more modern COM and UWP stuff.
What they might offer is a more focused subset.
- bluejekyll 7y agoA subset is all I was thinking really. Perhaps starting with the kernel.
- contextfree 7y agoWe (primarily Patrick Reisert, I'm trying to contribute a bit) have been working on WinRT support for Rust. It is a work in progress but is already usable now, with some missing capabilities such as UI support. https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust