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windows-rs

Rust for Windows

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Tech stack & purpose

Windows-rs is a Rust project maintained by Microsoft that provides comprehensive bindings and tooling for Windows development. The project includes a modular ecosystem of crates covering COM and WinRT foundations (windows-core), metadata handling (windows-metadata, windows-rdl), binding generation from Windows APIs (windows-bindgen), and high-level abstractions for graphics and UI such as Direct2D/Direct3D drawing (windows-canvas), composition engine integration (windows-composition), and animation support (windows-animation). The tech stack is primarily Rust with integration points for C/C++ headers via libclang (windows-clang) and includes utilities for async operations (windows-future), collection types (windows-collections), numeric types (windows-numerics), and simplified linking (windows-link). The project is built on ECMA-335 metadata format and provides both system-level and WinRT-level abstractions for Windows application development.

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