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Agreed. The message from Mozilla is that "Windows is really important to us, please come do it". Meanwhile they're paying for the development of yet another Unix-style package manager.

Clearly there is a list of priorities that guide these investments, and Windows support doesn't rank very high on that list.



  > Meanwhile they're paying for the development of yet 
  > another Unix-style package manager.
A package manager that will be platform-independent, and thus benefit Windows devs as well. At Rust's current state it's hardly surprising that they've chosen to allocate resources to efforts that will benefit all platforms equally. Meanwhile, the community for every platform but Windows is chomping at the bit to submit improvements. No doubt they're still holding out for the Windows community to do the same, without having to resort to hiring a dev specifically for Windows. But it will happen, if it has to.

In the meantime, if you know any experienced Windows devs looking for jobs working on Rust, please point them towards http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/o3VZWfwD




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