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Why is microsoft posting this / working on this rather than the rust project itself?
by tbrock 5y ago
Why is microsoft posting this / working on this rather than the rust project itself?
- wejick 5y agoBecause it's rust interface to windows API
- fnord123 5y agoDoes it replace or compete with the winapi crate?
- Jare 5y agoIt's their Windows API SDK, same as Amazon posting about their Rust SDK for AWS.
- Erlangen 5y agoAws named it "A New AWS SDK for Rust – Alpha Launch".[1] [1]https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/developer/a-new-aws-sdk-for-rust-alpha-launch/ https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/developer/a-new-aws-sdk-for-...
- creata 5y agoJudging by the getting started guide[0], they thankfully haven't forked Rust or anything, this is all about windows-rs[1], a Rust library for conveniently accessing the Windows API. [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/rust/setup https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/rus... [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
- aldanor 5y agoSo it's more like "Windows for Rust" rather than "Rust for Windows"...
- usrusr 5y agoIt's still Rust for Windows, as in "this is what we need to make Rust an option for Windows development". Thankfully, it's not 2003 anymore when the tools involved would only run on the target OS unless written in Java or by RMS. Nobody wants to bother with the specifics of their build server environment.
- hrydgard 5y agoThey're just bad at naming - that's not what they're doing.
- v8dev123 5y agoI hate their all caps names.
- steveklabnik 5y agoMicrosoft does also contribute to the Rust project itself, alongside the other stuff folks are talking about.