com-rs VS jni-rs

regarding COM - check https://github.com/microsoft/com-rs

I'm building a crate to show a progress indicator in the icon of the taskbar of the app using it, I already began the implementation for Linux, but I want to support Windows also, for that I need to access ITaskBarList3, I don't knew anything about COM interfaces before find this. The point is that I'm pretty confused about what to do. They said I would implement the functions, but I want to call them, and this thing com-rs, I'm not sure if I would redefine the interface that is already defined in winapi.

I do have education and real experience in the field. See, for example, my recent work on the rather arcane subject of Rust↔Java FFI. You don't get to pull rank with me, son. I know quite well what CreateFile does. (Fun fact: it creates a file handle, i.e. opens a file, and may or may not create the file itself.)

I've been playing around with jni-rs, I'm eventually planning on developing an app with Java gui and Rust backend. However I'm having some trouble advancing past HelloWorld lol. For example, here's some simple code that doesn't work and I really can't figure out why:

- JNI - how well does https://github.com/jni-rs/jni-rs work? Assuming that Firefox runs on Android and uses Rust this should be reasonable to work with?

Even so, staying relatively close to the Java focus of the class might be a good idea, since it will help prepare you for the AP exam. One idea would be using jni-rs to build Java bindings for a useful Rust library. Interesting candidates might be io-uring, lockfree, or even pyo3, if you wanted to try your hand at integrating Java and Python.