Comment by pjmlp

Easy, that is the beauty of recordings,

You can start by when C++/CX was replaced,

CppCon 2016: “Embracing Standard C++ for the Windows Runtime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4IwfiJ3EU

With the followup talk the year thereafter,

CppCon 2017: “C++/WinRT and the Future of C++ on Windows”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TdpWB_vRZM

Except the Visual Studio tooling comparable to C++/CX never came to be, using C++/WinRT feels to this day like using ATL with Visual C++ 6.0, except

"This isn't meant as a negative statement. cppwinrt has reached all of its goals and is generally considered complete and largely bug-free (1). Whether WinRT/WinUI/WinAppSDK is the future is debatable. My experience has shown me that the Windows operating system is at its best when you embrace the Windows API as a whole, including Win32/COM/WinRT, and not just the latest shiny wave. You can see this in action with the popularity of projects like win32metadata and windows-rs that support both WinRT and non-WinRT APIs seamlessly."

From https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme...

You will notice the open issues are mostly bug fixes.

So who knows what will even happen to windows-rs crate.