Add FAQ entry on whether to use winapi-rs or windows-rs

retep998 / winapi-rs

Rust bindings to Windows API

https://crates.io/crates/winapi

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Add FAQ entry on whether to use winapi-rs or windows-rs #1020

Open slix opened 2 years ago

slix commented 2 years ago

This would be useful for people who need to choose a way to call Windows APIs.

I found little information online about making a choice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/l23fr7/rust_for_windows_bindings_generating_the_entire/gk745dk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866116
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/1314

Kreijstal commented 1 year ago

@slix choose windows-rs, it has all functions you need, this was was hand-made and it feels like writing C code not Rust code, the windows one is more Rusty.