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aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 9:32 AM

merged this to unblock myself, or something: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/6869

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hundreds-father-404

12/07/2018, 3:26 PM

Woah that’s awesome. Good idea to look for a crate

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 4:46 PM

i've used

bindgen

itself (that goes the other way around to produce rust bindings from a header) and i'm obviously ridiculously interested in ways to make native code more composable so i was actually looking to completely redo the native code bootstrapping in pants and one of the motivations was the FFI having like 3 or 4 redundant definitions so i got lucky and the "community" converged on

cbindgen

recently too (other crates have all marked themselves as deprecated in their readmes)

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aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 4:46 PM

so it was good timing too

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 4:47 PM

rust build scripts are very very cool i have another one that will build any autotools project and make it available to your rust code which uses

bindgen

(the other direction)

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 4:47 PM

this is why i wanted to redo the native bootstrap process because if we can get mozilla working on our tools we would reach the theoretical limit of human productivity

hundreds-father-404

12/07/2018, 4:54 PM

What a great community where everyone is willing to converge on one library and mark their own as deprecated. You all making me want to learn Rust, especially with Rust 2018 🦀

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 5:15 PM

i love rust

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 5:15 PM

i'm one of the weirdos who likes c++ and i love that the approach with rust seems to be not to like destroy existing code but to make it work

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 5:16 PM

and that's the kind of thing that literally won't come out of companies like google

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 5:16 PM

(or amazon)

aloof-angle-91616

12/07/2018, 5:16 PM

(etc)

hundreds-father-404

12/07/2018, 5:17 PM

Modern C++ changed my mind with move semantics

hundreds-father-404

12/07/2018, 5:17 PM

I still hate working with C

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:42 AM

move semantics are fine i just didn't get what the heck anyone was talking about with move semantics until i started using rust because rust enforces it and i could tell you what a move ctor does but could i tell you why? no

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:42 AM

i hate working with a C codebase that shouldn't be C

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:42 AM

i think the linux kernel is nice

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:43 AM

but it's often the lowest common denominator of like the languages people know that like work with tensorflow or something

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:43 AM

so of course horrifically misused

aloof-angle-91616

12/08/2018, 1:43 AM

or something

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