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This is "surprise" because Microsoft announced it?

It has been possible to use Rust to write device drivers that run on Windows kernel space for years, already.

The Windows-rs crate (Microsoft's crate wrapping the Windows API) already has the WDK for a while (i.e.: the special sdk to interact with the kernel).

I welcome the news and agree it is important and meaningful but it is the kind of thing that was easy to see coming.

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> already has the WDK for a while

I would interpret "for a while" as more than ~7 weeks.

Version 0.46 added initial WDK support: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/releases/tag/0.46.0

Who is saying this is a surprise?

There are plenty of things in this industry that are hardly surprising but still newsworthy.

The real bummer is that this might eventually be a reason to switch to Win 11, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid for as long as possible.

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