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windows-rs

Rust for Windows

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What it is

Rust for Windows

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:27:21 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year52 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-30 18:55:26 UTC to 2026-06-13 16:51:19 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523

What Hacker News says

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pjmlp·Jul 1, 2024
Supposedly is being worked on for making it more Native AOT friendly. How we got into this mess? WinDev and DevDiv politcs. After the Longhorn debacle, its technologies landed on DevDiv, like WCF and WPF. Sinofsky and friends never were that keen in having .NET coming into their turf, it is no surprise that Hilo sample for Windows 7, then praises COM and C++ for Windows applications[0][1]. Then coming in this path, WinRT came to be, with roots as how .NET was being designed, before Microsoft decided to pivot it as another Java like technology[2]. A bunch of folks in WinDev, weren't happy with C++/CX, so they united to replace it with C++/WinRT, because extensions, when clang and GCC are full of extensions, promised to give back a C++/CX like developer experience in 2017[3], never delivered, went to have fun with Rust/WinRT. Now C++/WinRT
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is in maintenance mode[4], and Rust/WinRT never took off, and is now Rust/windows-rs[5]. As paying customer, impacted by those childish attitudes, I would have had the whole team fired. Finally, check the amount of bugs and complaints on their respective repos, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/ And then compare with Project Reunion vision from 2021, and where we are three years later https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/03/29/announ... Mainly because along the way, as if those changes weren't enough, they also decided to reboot their initial approach with Project Reunion, WinAppSDK took another route, and here we are. This is only a short overview of how WinRT went down since Windows 8, thus only those that never advocated for it, can honestly suggest WinUI, as they lack the background of how chaotic it all is. [0] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-hilo/ [1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msdn10/f... [2] - https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt... [3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TdpWB_vRZM&t=2983s [4] - https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme... [5] - https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
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