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0 pointspjmlp3y ago0 comments

You cannot even get it with Rust/WinRT straight out of Redmond, let alone having hopes to get it on Linux.

C++/WinRT tooling is a shadow of C++/CX capabilities (which feels like Microsoft's C++ Builder), and while the same folks are having fun with Rust/WinRT, its tooling is even worse.

I doubt that in five years it will be any close to what C++/CX was already doing in 2015.

Specially since they outsource any graphic tooling responsabilities to the DevDiv folks.

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exceptione3y ago

That's sad. I would love to tinker with UI programming on Linux, but it seems like to get anything decent you will have to use QT, which brings C++ as a requirement.

pjmlpOP3y ago

You can have a look at its issues,

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

Note the lack of of safe wrappers for Windows APIs, and still no good way to create the Windows Runtime objects necessary to interoperate with XAML.

Also the basic examples with very little UI code on what is supposed to be a projection for a Windows UI framework.

exceptione3y ago

Thanks. I did not mean XAML literally though, something like that would be super nice for Linux. The project you linked brings Windows RT as a requirement. But just something with the richness of QT + Rust on Linux would be welcome. I am hearing the rust bindings for QT are just a pain and incomplete. I was hoping for Rust to really offer an alternative for C++ here.

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0 pointspjmlp3y ago0 comments

You cannot even get it with Rust/WinRT straight out of Redmond, let alone having hopes to get it on Linux.

C++/WinRT tooling is a shadow of C++/CX capabilities (which feels like Microsoft's C++ Builder), and while the same folks are having fun with Rust/WinRT, its tooling is even worse.

I doubt that in five years it will be any close to what C++/CX was already doing in 2015.

Specially since they outsource any graphic tooling responsabilities to the DevDiv folks.

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exceptione3y ago

That's sad. I would love to tinker with UI programming on Linux, but it seems like to get anything decent you will have to use QT, which brings C++ as a requirement.

pjmlpOP3y ago

You can have a look at its issues,

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

Note the lack of of safe wrappers for Windows APIs, and still no good way to create the Windows Runtime objects necessary to interoperate with XAML.

Also the basic examples with very little UI code on what is supposed to be a projection for a Windows UI framework.

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