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Converting the Kernel to C++
A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123
An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/
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Best tools to convert code between languages?
But not all transpilers are between languages where at least one of them is designed to be transpiled. For example, c2rust can transpile, as the name suggests, C to (ugly, unsafe) Rust. A while ago there was a Java -> C compiler in GCC (GCJ), but it's pretty out of date now.
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Translate C code to Rust working with libc
I do not know about your specific issue but you may be interested by https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
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Rewrite in Rust or Use Rust-bindings
You should also consider using C2Rust (they're even working on C -> safe Rust translation)
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Emitting Safer Rust with C2Rust
> The date at the bottom of the article is 2022-06-13. Has there been further progress?
The article links to their github repo:
https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
There's commits in the last hour, so at least some signal of life.
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Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V
This is arguably already the state of things.
Rust might get compiled down through MIR, down through LLVM IR, down to assembly or wasm... which then might be JIT or AOT (re)compiled into other bytecodes... which might perhaps be decompiled back up to C... and C might be retranslated back to horrific unsafe-spamming Rust by the likes of https://c2rust.com/. We've come full circle!
The main issue is that retranslating high level languages into other high level languages isn't something that there's actually a lot of demand for, especially commercially, especially given the N x M translation matrix going on. So a lot of the projects "stabilize" (get abandoned). And automatically translating between the idioms of those languages gets even nastier in terms of matrix bloat.
Well, you've got stuff like MSIL and JVM bytecodes which are higher level, and preserve more type information, and can be compiled to / decompiled from while still preserving more structure, but they still form competing incompatible ecosystems.
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Will Carbon Replace C++?
That's the wrong direction. What's needed are intelligent converters which convert less-strict languages to more-strict ones.
Non-intelligent converters just make a mess. Here's c2rust.[1]
Classic C++ to modern C++, plus a compiler flag to lock out all the old unsafe stuff, would be an achievement.
[1] https://c2rust.com/
- What would you rewrite in Rust?
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Red Black Tree in Rust
Well, technically, it's not hard to build such data structures. If you are willing to liberally use raw pointers, UnsafeCell, MaybeUninit and ManuallyDrop, then you can more-or-less write C-equivalent code in unsafe Rust. (there are even transpilers from C to Rust)
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In Rust We Trust โ A Transpiler from Unsafe C to Safer Rust
/uj This transpiles from C to unsafe Rust using an existing tool, then strips the unsafe keyword from the generated function signatures
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[Media] I'm comparing writing a double-linked list in C++ vs with Rust. The Rust implementation looks substantially more complex. Is this a bad example? (URL in the caption)
itโs even written by the same person that wrote the Nomicon (the guide to the dark arts of unsafe)
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Rust books to read
If you want to dive deeper you can always have other options but now there are concrete cases, if you want to do low level thing https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ while if you want multi thread/concurrency stuff https://marabos.nl/atomics/ . There are many many books so you will have to point yourself to what you want
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Thread-shared boolean flag
Nonononono. SeqCst is the most error prone memory order: https://github.com/rust-lang/nomicon/issues/166
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[Media] Hashmap behaviour inside a loop due to lifetime issue
Hope this helps. For more details, see the Rustonomicon. I referenced the subtyping chapter here extensively.
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Unsafe Rust
Nice video! Glad I could help out. This stuff is hard, and I'm still learning a lot about it myself even years later. The Rustonomicon is a great read if you haven't already.
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Stepping up the YAML engineer game
Have you got a moment to read through the good book , after reading through this perhaps try the Rustonomicon.
- Questions about ownership rule
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CppCon 2022 Best Practices Every C++ Programmer Needs to Follow โ Oz Syed
That is not what UB means. Undefined Behaviour is behaviour that the compiler is allowed to assume will never happen, and which can consequently cause miscompilations due to optimisation passes gone wrong if it does in fact occur in the source code.
It's true that Rust does not have a written specification that clearly delineates what is and isn't UB in a single place. But:
1. UB is impossible in safe code (modulo bugs in unsafe code)
2. There are resources such as the Rustinomicon (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/) that provide a detailed guide on what is and isn't allowed in unsafe code.
In practice, it's much easier to avoid UB in Rust than it is in C++.
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How to write deserializer for custom binary protocol?
However, this is a wide topic out of scope for a Reddit comment, so maybe just read the Rustonomicon. It explains everything about data handling in Rust.
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Performance critical ML: How viable is Rust as an alternative to C++
The ownership model & borrow checker makes rust a bit of an awkward language in which to write complex data structures like trees and graphs. It can be done - since you can always use raw pointers & unsafe code when you absolutely need to to treat rust like C. But the language fights you, and the community can get a bit moralistic about this sort of thing. The rust nomicon is a fantastic resource for learning the limits of the borrow checker, and where and how to use unsafe code correctly. You will need unsafe less than you think you will, but sometimes you will have no choice.
What are some alternatives?
min-sized-rust - ๐ฆ How to minimize Rust binary size ๐ฆ
book - The Rust Programming Language
subsurface - This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
librope - UTF-8 rope library for C
rust-ffmpeg - Safe FFmpeg wrapper.
checkedc - Checked C is an extension to C that lets programmers write C code that is guaranteed by the compiler to be type-safe. The goal is to let people easily make their existing C code type-safe and eliminate entire classes of errors. Checked C does not address use-after-free errors. This repo has a wiki for Checked C, sample code, the specification, and test code.
Theseus - Theseus is a modern OS written from scratch in Rust that explores ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง: closing the semantic gap between compiler and hardware by maximally leveraging the power of language safety and affine types. Theseus aims to shift OS responsibilities like resource management into the compiler.
zz - ๐บ๐ ZetZ a zymbolic verifier and tranzpiler to bare metal C [Moved to: https://github.com/zetzit/zz]
Exercism - website - The codebase for Exercism's website.
rtorrent - rTorrent BitTorrent client
miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation