Use the toolkit from rust?

[djsavvy]

Apologies if the answer is obvious, but I'm very new to Windows development and still trying to figure things out.

Is there a way to use functions in the community toolkit from Rust? Perhaps similarly to https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs?

[michael-hawker]

Welcome @djsavvy! Great question.

We unfortunately don't have any experience with Rust yet. @azchohfi @Sergio0694 you haven't played with it yet, eh?

Since they are a WinRT language projection, I'd hope they'd have a way to consume assemblies from other projections like C#/WinRT. I'm not sure how that all works though. @azchohfi has done a lot with C#/WinRT for our WinUI 3 bits, so he may know a bit more?

I don't think the Windows Rust supports a XAML layer yet, so I imagine any controls would certainly not work yet, but if there's some way to include general .NET assemblies, then there could be some things to be used.

[azchohfi]

I'm not familiar with windows rust, but from a quick read, it would not work as of today. We do not export winmds from our packages, so we would need to do that first in order to support projections to other languages.