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cbindgen
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Hello World in Go From Rust
Golang uses cgo to communicate with external C libraries and Rust uses FFI (Foreign function interfaces) to export C functions. Additionally, a library for automatically generating bindings can be used to generate the header files (.h). In our case, we'll only be exporting two C functions, so using cbindgen is overkill but we'll use it regardless because why not? Firstly, we'll write the rust functions we want to export. We'll start by creating a new rust library:
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Ask HN: Automating multi-lang communication with a meta programming language
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen
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Nim v2.0 Released
As a 2-step approach, you could also probably use https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen and then Nim's native C FFI.
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ffizz: Build a Beautiful C API in Rust
The tooling for the first kind -- calling Rust from another language -- is a bit less developed, and tends to rely on code generation that doesn't necessarily produce a natural C API. cbindgen, uniffi, cxx, and Diplomat all take this course.
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How can I use rust libraries in zig/C
There's also cbindgen for automating the generation of C headers once you've got your code in the right shape and you'll also want to read the Rustonomicon.
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C Strings and my slow descent to madness
You can backport Rust standard library to C using https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen .
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Rust FFI and cbindgen: Integrating Embedded Rust Code in C
Later we'll see what cbindgen essentially does is receive a configuration and a Rust library and then spit out a C header (.h) file. One might think that what cbindgen is doing might not be that special and can be done by hand. In which some cases that might be true if the project is simple enough. Though additionally as the cbindgen documentation states:
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Nautilus just fucked me. (Gnome paper cuts)
Fuck it, I'll take the bait. Rust allows for amazing C interop by allowing for exporting of C types as a dynamic library, like C. Unlike C, this still allows for Rust's advanced checking at compile time. librsvg is one such library that is being used in the GTK ecosystem that is also almost completely Rust. You can use tools like cbindgen to generate C bindings.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (47/2022)!
Or alternatively cbindgen to create the header file from the Rust source.
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7 ways to pass a string between 🦀 Rust and C
The easiest way to obtain the headers for the rust code is to use the cbingen library.
awesome-nim
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Nim v2.0 Released
Ones that have not been mentioned so far:
nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm
npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg
futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark
nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable
ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel
cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps
chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos
zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional
owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.
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Hamarosan itt a Nim programozási nyelv 2.0.0-s változata
Hasznos cuccok hozzá: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
Ecosystem-wise - a brief subset of Nim packages:
https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim
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Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
One can, of course, go much further than simply distinct number types: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#science
(Unchained seems maybe the most featureful of those units packages.)
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
> This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is that it?
It is also useful for anyone wanting to implement language-level features as simple libraries. Someone else brought up Nim here: it's a great example of what can be done with metaprogramming (and in a non-Lisp language) as it intentionally sticks to a small-but-extendable-core design.
There's macro-based libraries that implement the following, with all the elegance of a compiler feature: traits, interfaces, classes, typeclasses, contracts, Result types, HTML (and other) DSLs, syntax sugar for a variety of things (notably anonymous functions `=>` and Option types `?`), pattern matching (now in the compiler), method cascading, async/await, and more that I'm forgetting.
https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#language-features
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Nim: Curated Packages
Just under their table of contents, they say that "This list is fairly outdated." and point you to https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim - and that repo seems to have recent updates.
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Nim Community Survey 2021 Results
Thanks for making these, I actually had no idea these existed! I don't "need" them now but seeing these gives me ideas for projects and makes future things easier.
I wish discovery of community libraries was higher, I'm constantly discovering libraries that do amazing things 'hidden' away. I know there's https://nimble.directory/ and https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim but most of the time I end up using a search engine for something specific if I think of it.
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Prologue: A powerful web framework written in Nim
awesome-nim: https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim
What are some alternatives?
rust-bindgen - THIS CRATE IS DEPRECATED, please use https://github.com/servo/rust-bindgen.
prologue - Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim
cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++
nim-chronos - Chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming
rusty-cheddar - A Rust crate for automatically generating C header files from Rust source file.
awesome-prologue - Plugins for prologue written in Nim.
flutter_rust_bridge - Flutter/Dart <-> Rust binding generator, feature-rich, but seamless and simple.
prologue-examples - A repository to host examples for Prologue framework written in Nim language.
tch-rs - Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.
nimtraits - Automatic trait implementation for nim types
Module Linker - browse modules by clicking directly on "import" statements on GitHub
enu - A Logo-like 3D environment, implemented in Nim