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by MuffinFlavored 2471 days ago
Libraries only, or can you write native iOS apps 100% in Rust, no Swift?
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quells 2471 days ago
You would need at least a bridging layer (of Objective-C) to so that your app code could use the system frameworks and respond to events (user input, network, sensors, etc).
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Diggsey 2471 days ago
Objective-C shares calling conventions and struct layout with C, so theoretically you could directly call the system frameworks from Rust via extern "C" functions.
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holy_city 2471 days ago
Not even theoretically, the bindings for the runtime are out there [1] with some nifty helper macros.

[1] https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-objc

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MuffinFlavored 2471 days ago
It'd be super cool to see a 100% Rust (with extern "C" calls) Hello, world! iOS compatible app.
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