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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by alexcrichton on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:38PM (#9780753)
In addition to not interacting with the GNU toolchain at all (through MinGW), MSVC support will indeed enable native Windows debug info (as you mentioned) so native tools can be used to debug Rust code. Note that this isn't 100% implemented yet, but it's coming soon! Additionally you'll get interoperation with MSVC-compiled libraries. Libraries compiled with MinGW don't interoperate well with MSVC (and vice versa), so this enables Rust code to link against an MSVC-compiled native library.
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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by kibwen on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:43PM (#9781100)
(HN readers, note that alexcrichton is the one spearheading the MSVC effort.)
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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by jnbiche on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:26AM (#9782492)
Will MinGW still be supported, or will that be dropped?
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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by steveklabnik on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:05PM (#9785553)
There's no plan to drop it.
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