News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Designing a COM Library for Rust. Parent comment

Re:Designing a COM Library for Rust by pjmlp on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:15AM (#21211150)
Except the one without a bright future is Win32.

Since Vista all major APIs are based on COM.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Designing a COM Library for Rust by emddudley on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:35AM (#21215732)
My point is that for the vast majority of developers this does not matter one bit. The Windows API is not relevant to the work that most developers do today. In the cases where a developer actually needs to interact with Windows there are easier technologies available.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Designing a COM Library for Rust by pjmlp on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:49AM (#21224300)
Yeah, if we are talking about web developers I guess.

How do you think those easier technologies are implemented?

Just to give an example, React Native for Windows uses UWP.

As for not being relevant, the software for a platform with 80% market share across desktop and laptops, does not write itself.

[ Parent | on HN ]