WinUI 3 support
Alovchin91 opened this issue · 1 comments
Hi,
It's great to see that Windows App SDK is now (going to be) supported on Rust! 🙂
I would like to ask, is this the right crate to use if I want to build WinUI 3 apps using Rust?
I realize that WinUI 3 support might only be coming in the future, but I would like to ask for a clarification of the crate ecosystem.
As a somewhat related question, how does this crate relate to windows-rs? Does it supersede the windows-rs crate, or builds upon it?
Thanks!
Great questions!
The windows crate is foundational in that it powers this new windows-app crate. It's early days but the windows-app crate is meant to make it much easier to use the Windows App SDK for Rust developers. As this new set of APIs requires bootstrapping and various other hooks to get it up and running, using only the windows crate - while possible - is a little more cumbersome for these new APIs.
So while the windows crate is still essential as it provides all of the language support, the windows-app crate will provide the necessary bootstrapping unique to the Windows App SDK.
As WinUI is a large part of the Windows App SDK, the goal is to support the latest WinUI app development through the windows-app crate.