Would std code for Windows ever use the windows crate by Microsoft?

• win32metadata

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The Rust bindings are indeed generated from metadata, which provides several language projections, not only Rust.

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std does depend on several crates from crates.io, although all are owned by rust-lang GitHub org or Rust team members https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std/Cargo.toml

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• winsafe

  41 437 9.4 Rust

  Windows API and GUI in safe, idiomatic Rust.

An idiomatic Rust API would add a layer on top of that, providing safe abstractions and taking advantage of lifetime guarantees, which is what the winsafe crate aims for. Of course, you can't automate this kind of thing, so it's very laborious, and it probably will never cover 100% of the vast Win32 API surface.

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