WinRT was great, back when using it via .NET Native and C++/CX.

It was like Delphi and C++ Builder kind of experience, then they killed the whole experience.

Rust with windows-rs is hardly any better, and coming from the same folks that killed C++/CX, with false promises at CppCon 2017, I don't have great hopes for it. They will jump ship again after a new shiny.

The thing is, at least compiled programming languages are statically typed. XAML is... well I don't think they even have a language server for it. My experience in Visual Studio (non-Code) was pretty bad.