FBfbilhaut·Jun 13, 2026
In The state of building user interfaces in Rustmicrosoft
windows-rs
Rust2020–2026
microsoft / windows-rs
windows-rs
Rust for Windows
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- microsoft/cppwinrt · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Observed mentions: 2020-04-30 18:55:26 UTC to 2026-06-13 16:51:19 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 2 | 12 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 1 | 13 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesWhile part of the Windows crate, I think windows-reactor deserves explicit mention.
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/tree/master/crates/s...
It's a react-style API for WinUI3 apps, meaning it's not trying to mimic the Windows LAF. It's merely a binding.
In The state of building user interfaces in RustMicrosoft ships a Rust WinUI3 library, React-like
4 points · Open discussionWindows Reactor: UI library for Rust developers targeting WinUI 3
2 points · Open discussionYeah, Win32 (Windows API) will be around for a long time one way or the other, and there is a ton of tooling and docs around it. Even for non-Windows usage it is to be considered in certain situations.
> Don't be swayed by the propaganda. Especially if your application has essentially no untrusted input.
Even without untrusted inputs, in 2026 one should think twice before selecting C++ for a new project. There are still some reasons to do so, of course, but Win32 isn't one of them -- one can use it from a memory safe language just fine, e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
In Windows native app development is a mess