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On the road to R# I guess.

I guess shipping Windows API cargo crates makes too much sense. Does anyone have any context for gaps in Rust they are addressing?

In TFA it mentions that ownership will be based on groups of objects, but I’m not sure I understand what this solves that a struct doesn’t.




> I guess shipping Windows API cargo crates makes too much sense. Does anyone have any context for gaps in Rust they are addressing?

I haven't finished digging through the OP, but it looks like a bunch of Microsoft employees (already aware of Rust's safety benefits) have started recognizing the commitment to FFI as well. My last project had a feature that depended on a bind to win32, which turned out to be the most time consuming aspect - as it demanded a bunch of tooling that was otherwise unnecessary (valgrind, etc). If they were to take stewardship of that interface, lots of unsafe{} would disappear overnight.

https://kennykerr.ca/2019/11/05/rust/




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