[fsloth]

win32 api is pretty good. I don't see why you would want anything else for native app development. If you want to use the modern stuff it's far better to develop the UI frontend using Microsoft tools in C# and then use Rust as the backend. In this sense Rust story is not worse than C++ or C.

If a person wants a native gui I guess QT would be worth investigating as well (unless one is concerned by the license).

[dfgdfgffd]

There ist at least some support for XAML via C++.

But yes, it means C# UI with cumbersome Rust interop, if you rely on a Rust SDK.

[pjmlp]

There is, for those that enjoy editing IDL files without any kind of VS tooling support, and manually merging generated code.