The free open source web browser Otter – which uses the Chromium browser engine at the heart of Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge – is being ported to OS/2.įor the uninitiated, OS/2 was an operating system that was created by IBM and Microsoft in the mid to late 1980s. The former 'Rust/WinRT' label has been ditched in favour of 'Rust for Windows' in this release and as well as support for Win32 and COM APIs in the windows crate (enabled by the win32metadata project) build times and error handling have been improved. We had a crack at Microsoft's Hello World example using Visual Studio Code and found the process relatively straightforward, even if the download size of the components required dwarfed the diminutive message box. While it has been possible for the adventurous to delve into the API, 'completed consumption' support makes things considerably easier.

Even the most beloved of languages will struggle to avoid a dip into the API of yesteryear if it is to run efficiently on the Windows platform. It's a tacit admission that no matter how much Microsoft might hope it will, the Win32 API does not seem to be going anywhere any time soon. Version 0.9 of the Rust language projection turned up last week and, according to Microsoft, gives 'access to the entire Windows API surface in a language-idiomatic way.' Microsoft has released an update for Rust for Windows (formerly Rust/WinRT) with completed support for Win32 and COM APIs.

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