Comment by withinrafael
9 months ago
Repo contributor here, just to curb some expectations a bit: it's one very smart guy (Kenny), his unpaid volunteer sidekick (me), and a few unpaid external contributors. (I'm trying to draw a line between those with and without commit access, hence all the edits.)
There's no other internal or external Microsoft /support/ that I'm aware of. I wouldn't necessarily use it as a signal of the company's intentions at this time.
That said, there are Microsoft folks working on the Rust compiler, toolchain, etc. side of things too. Maybe those are better indicators!
That's disappointing on Microsoft's part, because their docs make it seem like windows-rs is the way of the future.
Thanks for your work, though!
Don't be, they also killed C++/CX, even went to CppCon 2016 telling us how great future C++/WinRT would bring to us.
Now almost a decade later, VS tooling is still not there, stuck in ATL/VC++ 6.0 like experience (they blame it on the VS team), C++/WinRT is in maintenance, only bug fixes, and all the fun is on Rust/WinRT.
I would never trust this work for production development.
I wish Microsoft had any direction on the 'way of the future' for native apps on Windows
If they did publish a “way of the future” direction, would you believe them?
Fool me N times then shame on them, fool me N+1 times, then shame on me sort of thing.
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