I have a pretty cool use case where I successfully interfaced between C++ and Rust code. This was for a project consisting of a sculpture with a bunch of LED s

I have a pretty cool use case where I successfully interfaced between C++ and Rust code. This was for a project consisting of a sculpture with a bunch of LED strips on it, and my part was to do the programming, electronics and wiring for it. To control the LED strips I use Teensy 3.2 microcontroller boards, with the OctoWS2811 adaptor board [0], along with an industrial singleboard computer. The Teensy 3.2 boards I programmed using the Arduino libraries and the OctoWS2811 library [1]. The code I wrote for this part was C++. (But I don’t use the Arduino IDE, I use JetBrains CLion.) Compiling and flashing the firmware for the Teensy, and disconnecting and reconnecting cables etc was making the development a bit annoying. So in Rust I wrote a LED simulator program that renders the “pixels” of the LED strips on my screen, and I compiled my C++ code that I’ve written for the microcontrollers on the host, with some shims that I wrote to provide some functions that my firmware uses, and I link this with my Rust program. The end result is that I have a fully functioning LED simulator that I use while developing, that runs on my computer. It runs on both macOS and Linux. And then the same C++ code of mine gets included and built without modification when I build my firmware for the microcontrollers. It is work that I am very satisfied about :) Should also note that I use the bindgen crate, not cxx. https://crates.io/crates/bindgen https://crates.io/crates/bindgen [0]: https://www.pjrc.com/store/octo28_adaptor.html https://www.pjrc.com/store/octo28_adaptor.html [1]: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_OctoWS2811.html https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_OctoWS2811.html