[Animats]

I have to say, Rust is looking more mature lately. I wrote a little RSS reader in Rust two years ago, and it was a pain to get all the library version dependencies lined up. Yesterday I recompiled it. No more need for version pinning or Github references; it just worked with a default cargo.toml file. Two years ago there was too much "only works in nightly" or "you need to use this version of that library". Progress.

Any progress on a C++ to Rust converter? Not a "transpiler". Something with enough smarts to figure out when to use native Rust arrays, not "offsets" to imitate pointer arithmetic. I'm surprised that one of the big C++ users, like Google, doesn't have a group doing that.

[Mordak]

Something like the cxx crate[1]? You specify your shared objects between C++ and Rust, and it spits out code for both sides.

The guy who maintains it said in the reddit thread[2] about this same topic that the Google people have been sending him good PRs, which is presumably related to integrating Rust into Chrome.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/cxx [2] https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gpdorw/the_chromium_proje...