[mathek]

Concerning NIFs, it is entirely possible to write Membrane elements using NIFs in Rust ;) The reason why current ones are written in pure C is that they mostly consist of calls to existing libraries, also in C. We've experimented with using Rust, but we ended up with most part of our code being unsafe calls to library functions, providing more boilerplate than profits. If we are to create a considerable big native part of Membrane, we will definitely consider using Rust.