my experience talking with Rust devs about why it's the best systems language

@cwebber imho rust is ok for making a .so with a C API, but interacting with C++ is MUCH harder. And I've tried cbindgen and bindgen and they "work" but ye gods ;)

Fundamentally Rust-the-source-language is like modern C++ header-based libraries. Good fucking luck making a .so without shipping the .h source. ;)

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Jens Finkhäuser

my experience talking with Rust devs about why it's the best systems language

@brion @cwebber Header based code may be fine, but I find I can't call it a library.

13 Jul 2023 at 16:44 | Open on social.finkhaeuser.de

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my experience talking with Rust devs about why it's the best systems language

@brion @cwebber cxx is much better for getting Rust and C++ to talk to each other, but there's currently no good way to integrate it into C++ build systems.

13 Jul 2023 at 19:25 | Open on floss.social

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