I've built the most popular[1] actively maintained tiling window manager for Windows that is available today.[2]
It would have been impossible for me to build this in any other language. I knew absolutely 0 about developing for Windows when I started this, but I quickly realized that the Win32 API is a very old beast with a lot of footguns that Rust saves me from on a daily basis.
On top of that, with parking_lot I can quickly and easily detect incredibly rare instances of deadlocks, and in general have to worry very little about concurrency. All of this allows me to stop worrying about the noise and focus on the real work of how the window manager should behave.
It would have been impossible for me to build this in any other language. I knew absolutely 0 about developing for Windows when I started this, but I quickly realized that the Win32 API is a very old beast with a lot of footguns that Rust saves me from on a daily basis.
On top of that, with parking_lot I can quickly and easily detect incredibly rare instances of deadlocks, and in general have to worry very little about concurrency. All of this allows me to stop worrying about the noise and focus on the real work of how the window manager should behave.
1. Based on Github Stars
2. https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi