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by MobiusHorizons 1426 days ago
It looks like it needs to interoperable with the rest of their codebase which was already written in C

> The new PDF interpreter is written entirely in C, but interfaces to the same underlying graphics library as the existing PostScript interpreter. So operations in PDF should render exactly the same as they always have (this is affected slightly by differing numerical accuracy), all the same devices that are currently supported by the Ghostscript family, and any new ones in the future should work seamlessly.
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Sytten 1426 days ago
That is not an argument at least for rust since its super easy to consume and offer a C interface. I think it's more of a shift in mentality that needs to occur.
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MobiusHorizons 1426 days ago
while it doesn't prevent rust from being used, it is still a hurdle which must be overcome. Building and maintaining a multi-language build system has significant costs, especially with a project with as much history and wide use as ghostscript.
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dfox 1425 days ago
It is so easy and well documented that first page of google results for “rust autotools” does not contain anything about how to integrate rust code into existing autotools project.

Another issue is general subtle brokenness of rust tooling on anything that is not linux on amd64.

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