Rust needed a GUI and Microsoft provided one. They seem to be very focused on giving developers what they need, but only to a point. I've been doing some system glue stuff and while it's nice that powershell has ssh an scp they are missing some options I want. I was going to use curses with python (batteries included!), only to find out it's not supported on windows.

It almost feels like a strategy - be standard enough to bring people in, but idiosyncratic enough to lock them in.

I'll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.

> I'll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.

Please be aware that if you do this, your application won't be accessible with screen readers or other assistive technologies on Windows and Mac. At least not now. Maybe I'll have time to implement GTK accessibility backends for those platforms someday.

Yet another reason for them to do this. Not just a GUI for Rust, but the only accessible one. It really is a solid strategic offering to bring Rust developers to their Windows platform. But IMHO developers who do are trading tomorrow for today.

Actually, Qt is also accessible (more or less) on all the desktop platforms, so that's another option.

Is there a good way to use Qt from Rust?

I looked the other day, but couldn't figure it out.