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Wow, in that case Rust is looking like it could be hell of a lot better C replacement! If I could just write all my libs in Rust using the full power of the lan

Wow, in that case Rust is looking like it could be hell of a lot better C replacement! If I could just write all my libs in Rust using the full power of the language and then just call them easily from any language without ungodly overhead or complexity like in case of say Java/JNI, that's nothing short of fascinating! Thanks for taking the time to explain.

dbaupp 12y ago
It's not all brilliant though, there's still a lot of useful tooling that Rust needs to develop to make it really nice, e.g. there's no nice way to create a C header file describing a Rust library (since C headers are the lingua-franca of FFI libraries, in many ways), https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10530 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10530 . And, being a young language, it's not too hard to be doing something no-one else has ever done, especially with this low-level stuff. :) (Meaning compiler bugs and some "I don't know" answers.)