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		alexcrichton on June 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCa... In addition to not interacting with the GNU toolchain at all (through MinGW), MSVC support will indeed enable native Windows debug info (as you mentioned) so native tools can be used to debug Rust code. Note that this isn't 100% implemented yet, but it's coming soon! Additionally you'll get interoperation with MSVC-compiled libraries. Libraries compiled with MinGW don't interoperate well with MSVC (and vice versa), so this enables Rust code to link against an MSVC-compiled native library.

kibwen on June 25, 2015 | [–]

(HN readers, note that alexcrichton is the one spearheading the MSVC effort.)

jnbiche on June 26, 2015 | [–]

Will MinGW still be supported, or will that be dropped?

steveklabnik on June 26, 2015 | [–]

There's no plan to drop it.

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