Wrapping of C libraries in a Rust interface works quite well, and makes them safer. For stable battle-tested libraries I think it's even preferable to rewrites.

Wrapping of C libraries in a Rust interface works quite well, and makes them safer. For stable battle-tested libraries I think it's even preferable to rewrites. Many informal rules of C libraries like: "don't call read() after close()", "pointer must never be null", or "keep this data alive for as long as the handle is in use" in Rust can be expressed using the type system, and enforced at compile time. Cleanup can be automated. This catches bugs in user code and shields the library form misuse.