Rewrite in Rust?

[hwittenborn]

Hey! I just saw this project off of Reddit and saw there was a need for a GTK application. I was likewise wondering if there'd be interest in making this project work in Rust, which could provide some nice benefits compared to the current implementation:

• This tool could be exposed as a library, allowing any Rust program to use it's functionality in a clean manner
• The CLI and GUI can both use the same codebase, with the only differences being the code to make the CLI/GUI work

I'm throwing this out to get some thoughts on whether it'd be a viable option of not. What do you think?

[ElliotKillick]

I mean, I love the idea but I unfortunately lack the time to do this myself.

[lj3954]

I'm half a year late, but I also needed this functionality for my new project so I'm working on a crate, rido. The featureset is very limited as of now, but Enterprise/Evaluation releases will be added, and languages are already implemented. Two things that are out of scope of my project are file downloads (a program that needs to download image files certainly needs to handle that itself) and legacy releases not on Microsoft's servers, which one could find URLs and checksums for in this repository instead.