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win32metadata
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (18/2023)!
As /u/huellenoperator notes, that this needs a pointer to a mutable string comes straight from microsoft through win32metadata. Maybe it's a mistake on Microsoft's side, but if it's not you're taking big risks.
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Kernel Headers for Windows could soon make it into windows-rs
Microsoft offers official "bindings" to Win32 APIs through win32metadata. However, until recently, it did not include metadata for kernel-level functions or WDK. In early 2021, an issue was raised through windows-rs regarding this limitation, but progress was slow until now. Microsoft has finally released official metadata for WDK, which can be found on the wdkmetadata repository. The latest comment on the issue thread can be found here:
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winreader: read memory from other programs
for win32metadata's kernel api tracking issue, https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/401
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Best windows stubs
Any examples? Since the API bindings in windows-sys are generated from the metadata generated from official Windows SDK headers I'd not expect to see this kind of difference.
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can we be free of c?
You might also look at this project: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
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Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?
There is still the occasional incredibly subtle link time fuckery in Rust.
https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/1274
"Minor" semver updates to crates breaking things via e.g. unexpected MSRV bumps is pretty common too, with some resulting bitrot. That said, I agree with you that things in Rust are at least better. Imperfect, but better.
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Are there any Windows-centric perks of using C# that other non-Microsoft languages simply can't offer (or at least don't out of the box)?
Win32 is available as metadata to enable adoption in as many languages as possible. Are there some things missing? Yes. The Microsoft team acknowledges that and encourages asking for the things you need so they can add them to the metadata.
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Using Windows API in Julia?
It might be interesting to have bindings generated for the entirety of Win32 API through https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
- Would std code for Windows ever use the windows crate by Microsoft?
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The Atrocities of COM win32 headers
Hi JB! Funny to cross paths with you in this context. I don't know if you remember me but I was a rookie programmer who got the pleasure of joining the VideoLan Conference in Dublin back in 2014, and then Paris the next year, and you were very kind to me.
The GitHub issue title here is unfortunately misleading. I have renamed it to "ideas to improve windows header files and libc". Also, I hope it is clear that I rebutted the points made by the OP, because I completely agree with your summary that the mingw-w64 people are skilled, nice and very clever and think about all use cases.
If any drive-by HN readers work at Microsoft, please help us with this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766
WinDev
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Inexplicable lag when opening media folders, Windows reloads every file individually
Trying to research this a little more, I came across a post that certainly seems to mimic the issue.
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Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load
> compressed memory
doesn't solve much and it's been available in all other OS for a long time.
many reported that compressed memory can negatively impact performances in certain scenarios
For example
https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...
- Thanks for everything, WinRAR: Windows is finally getting native RAR support
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I condensed down 30 million JPGs to 2.6TB and it takes me 6 days to move them
You can see pretty easily if you ever try to delete a node_modules folder on Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/17 There's some anectdotal evidence in there that FS performance is better in Linux even when Linux is emulated in WSL2 instead of native Windows.
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This delay happens when I open any folder with videos in it. Is it normal behavior or should I change any settings? (Using Windows 11 22h2 latest official build).
issue on github
- Switching back to Windows showed me why Linux is more viable than ever
- Alternatives to CCleaner?
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22471 for the Dev Channel
Addressed an issue where when explorer.exe is launched from an elevated process was using a lower memory priority, impacting the performance of all processes launched after it (Issue #55).
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“The entire 11 MB ZIP file was being read from disk a single byte at a time”
A bug has been filed about this on the WinDev repo, might help resolve it faster if it gets some upvotes: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...
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Notepad running next to gedit using the initial WSL GUI app support
There are performance issues with POSIX-first software on Windows. There is an open issue for the Windows team about it on Github. You can read more about it here. That's why WSL is needed.
What are some alternatives?
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
JNA - Java Native Access
dotnet - This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
go - The Go programming language
openjdk - Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
winapi - Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost use.
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
ProjectReunion - The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
panama-foreign - https://openjdk.org/projects/panama
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