[aaron_h]

How good is rust at using existing C/C++ libraries? There’s so many of them for very useful low-level functionality, especially when programming against the Win32 API (which is written in C/C++ itself). Could I write a Windows kernel driver in rust?

I also can’t ignore the fact that Mozilla has been in serious decline as an organization in recent years. I worry about rust’s long-term trajectory as their support of the language wanes. It’s one of the reasons I feel so positive about the future of go, as they have a lot of dedicated people on it from google (an organization that in all likelihood won’t be going anywhere anytime soon).

[zozbot234]

> How good is rust at using existing C/C++ libraries? There’s so many of them for very useful low-level functionality, especially when programming against the Win32 API (which is written in C/C++ itself).

About as good as any other language with a C FFI (which is most of them).

> ... I worry about rust’s long-term trajectory as [Mozilla's] support of the language wanes.

I thought that was the whole point of having a Rust Foundation as separate from Mozilla itself.

[bugmen0t]

Rust has very strong backing at Meta, Microsoft, Google, AWS and others. I wouldn't worry about corporate backing.

You can call into the Windows APIs (there's a windows crate) and if you want to call into something that isn't there, `cbindgen` and friends are amazing.