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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by winter_blue on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:54PM (#23035993)
Yea, this is so true. It would be amazing if some standard similar to COM could unify the Linux community.
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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by snuxoll on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:04PM (#23036740)
GObject gets us some of the way, but the ABI and bindings for other languages make it a royal pain in the ass to export types from anything but C rather than just consuming them.

Rather unfortunate, because with GIR you could easily have a program written in a mix of Rust, C, Go, C++, Vala, etc. all playing nicely if they were all able to expose to the common object model.

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