[dblohm7]

> The article also felt like Rust does it this way because all these other projects which came before it did it this way. Someone originated the technique and no one questions its validity, without seeing if there was an alternative method to achieve the same result.

Precisely. As somebody with extensive experience porting cross-platform applications to run on Windows, it smells more to me like "everybody involved in this is actually quite ignorant about Windows," instead of (what I am assuming is the intended) "look at this crazy shit we had to do because Windows sucks."