Am I the only one who finds Rust to be centered around Linux? Any Windows devs want to share their experience with Rust?

• rr

  102 8,640 9.6 C++

  Record and Replay Framework

  

Have you tried using them via vscode? :)

• windows-rs

  97 9,812 7.7 Rust

  Rust for Windows

  

Microsoft is getting behind Rust with things like this guide and these API bindings.

• InfluxDB

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• open_safety

  14 35 2.6 Rust

  An application to assist with securing script execution

• ntfs

  3 494 4.4 Rust

  An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate, usable from firmware level up to user-mode.

The most exciting windows project I'm following is /u/ColinFinck's NTFS implementation. It's exciting for what it's doing, and exciting for the kinds of GUIs and tools that can be built on top of it

• sciter

  85 2,562 0.0 C++

  Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

  

At work we use Rust for low-level access to Windows APIs (we wanted more control than with C#, but without the pain of C or C++). It works decently well for everything from low-level Windows API tricks, over GUI (ok, we are cheating and using Sciter bindings) up to the server side.

• music-vibes

  1 18 0.0 Rust

  Desktop app for translating audio output into vibrations

I'm using Rust on Windows (msvc, no WSL), and I don't have any issues with it. Lately, I've written a simple gui application music-vibes using egui crate. It's currently Windows-only, only because it depends on my audio-capture crate, and I have only written Windows backend for now.

• xwin

  5 327 7.4 Rust

  A utility for downloading and packaging the Microsoft CRT headers and libraries, and Windows SDK headers and libraries needed for compiling and linking programs targeting Windows.

I will do you one better. When I do windows development, I work within WSL and use the cross-compiler toolchain to generate windows binaries. I have found "Xwin" to be very useful for this: https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin

• WorkOS

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• Umpire

  3 7 8.3 Rust

  Combat Quest of the Millennium

I've done a little bit of Rust development on Windows and had a good experience. I ported my (still unfinished) Umpire game to Windows pretty easily. I had to rename some files that had colons in the filename which Windows didn't like. The actual hard part was the terminal library, but switching to crossterm was pretty straightforward. All in all it was pretty painless.

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