# microsoft/windows-drivers-rs

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/windows-drivers-rs
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: drivers, rust-lang, rust-library, wdf, wdk, windows, rust
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:06:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 56, longevity 77
- inputs: {"age_days": 1082, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 292, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 25}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1915, forks 134 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.614594+00:00)

## What it is
A collection of Rust crates from Microsoft that enable developing Windows drivers (WDM, KMDF, UMDF) in Rust. It provides build tooling, FFI bindings, and safe idiomatic wrappers around the Windows Driver Kit APIs.

## Use cases
- write windows drivers in rust
- generate wdk ffi bindings for rust
- develop a kmdf driver in rust
- build a umdf driver with cargo
- create safe rust bindings for windows driver kit apis

## When to choose
- you want memory-safe Windows driver development in Rust
- you are experimenting with KMDF/UMDF/WDM drivers and can tolerate an early-stage project
- you want Microsoft-backed tooling integrated with Cargo

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready driver solution today
- you require WDK configurations other than KMDF 1.33 from crates.io
- you develop drivers for non-Windows platforms

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: sdk, build-tool, parser
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, programming-languages
- platform: windows, rust, cli
- tags: windows-drivers, wdf, wdk, kernel-development, ffi-bindings, rust

## Member repositories
- microsoft/windows-drivers-rs (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.614594+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:10:23.977161+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.614594+00:00, sha 381a9da94285)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.