Windows-rs Alternatives

windows-rs reviews and mentions

• Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
  23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2024
• 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind
  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2024

  I'd say Rust does have that big ticket ecosystem push. Microsoft has been embracing Rust lately, with things like official Windows bindings [1].

  The bigger problem is just inertia: large game engines are enormous.

  [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

• Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023

  It's a shame that, unlike with Win32, using WinUI places pretty harsh restrictions on which programming languages and environments you can use. Only C# and C++ are supported, the latter only with Microsoft compilers. For everything else, including Rust[1], Python and MinGW C/C++, there is no answer for OP's question, and the effect of this on the visual consistency of the Windows desktop is obvious - there is none. Every third-party app uses a different toolkit with a different look and feel, because the library providing the standard look and feel simply isn't available to the majority of developers.

  [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/1836

• Good rust book for the 1st time programmer with no prior programming experience?
  1 project | /r/rust | 28 Jun 2023

  [0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

• What in Rust is equivalent to C++ DLLs (shared libraries), or what do I need to do to support extensions in my app?
  7 projects | /r/rust | 21 May 2023

  On Windows you'd need to call the LoadLibraryEx method. You'd also need a crate to call Win32 functions, I suggest windows-rs.

• Microsoft is to enable Rust use for Windows 11 kernel
  4 projects | /r/rust | 28 Apr 2023

  windows-rs, Microsoft's crate wrapping the Windows API, already includes the WDK, the special sdk for creating kernel code.

  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023
• Which GUI toolkit for Rust today.. few questions...
  8 projects | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023

  On windows, I'll probably use https://github.com/gabdube/native-windows-gui or https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs both of them seem pretty solid.

• Which crate for listing / moving Windows 11 windows ?
  1 project | /r/rust | 21 Mar 2023

  *nod* It's an official Microsoft thing generated from official Microsoft API definition files. (The repo is at microsoft/windows-rs on GitHub.)

• Kernel Headers for Windows could soon make it into windows-rs
  5 projects | /r/rust | 22 Feb 2023

  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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