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Wish they'd open the source and let the Rust community do this kind of stuff instead. No need to waste Windows development time on niche stuff.
by jimbob45 7y ago
Wish they'd open the source and let the Rust community do this kind of stuff instead. No need to waste Windows development time on niche stuff.
- steveklabnik 7y agoThe article has a very prominent https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs in it, where you will find that this is MIT licensed.
- snuxoll 7y agoOpen what source? Everyone has access to the winmd files necessary, the COM ABI is documented - there’s been nothing stopping anyone from doing this. All of the work MS has done on these bindings is MIT licensed as well.
- contextfree 7y agoIn fact there were third-party bindings already which I worked on: https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust the new first-party ones look to be more complete and polished but this is mainly due to time and skill limitations on my part. :)
- pie_flavor 7y agoIt's so open source, the developer of C++/WinRT didn't even work for Microsoft when he made it.
- pcwalton 7y agoThe source is open, as already mentioned. But as for spending developer resources, I think having Microsoft work on things like this helps Rust and Windows alike. It helps Rust by lending a sense of official platform support to the language. And it helps Windows by encouraging Rust users to develop for the platform.