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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.
prologue
- Nim v2.0 Released
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prologue VS happyx - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 24 May 2023
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Setup a Website with Nim
If you want to try an alternative to Jester, Prologue is very nice to use: https://github.com/planety/prologue
- Prologue – Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim
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Nim Version 1.6 Released
Well no language is perfect, but Nim can be used in almost every domain because of it's compilation targets(C, C++, JS) and it's fast compile times(who needs interpretation when compile times are that fast!):
* Shell scripting, I still assume most people will just use Bash tho: https://github.com/Vindaar/shell
* Frontend: https://github.com/karaxnim/karax or you could bind to an existing JS library.
* Backend: For something Flask-like: https://github.com/dom96/jester or something with more defaults https://github.com/planety/prologue
* Scientific computing: the wonderful SciNim https://github.com/SciNim
* Blockchain: Status has some of the biggest Nim codebases currently in production https://github.com/status-im?q=&type=&language=nim&sort=
* Gamedev: Also used in production: https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim and due to easy C and C++ interop, you get access to a lot of gamedev libraries!
* Embedded: this is a domain I know very little about but for example https://github.com/elcritch/nesper or https://github.com/PMunch/badger for fun Nim+embedded stuff!
Most of the disadvantages come from tooling and lack of $$$ support.
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Good web framework for Nim?
It doesn't https://github.com/planety/prologue/blob/devel/prologue.nimble
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How to create a file upload server?
Jester is really great but I feel Prologue should get some attention too.
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Learning Nim: Web Server with Jester and Norm [video]
Nice! I want to also suggest the Prologue framework - here are the docs
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One Nim web framework to rule over all styles
Prologue is a great web framework in the Nim world. However, Prologue framework tries to avoid using macros. It is intended to reduce magic and reduce surprise. Macros could save you from redundant codebases. At the mean time, it could bring surprise. This article talks about how to extend the routing style outside Prologue without invading inside the web framework.
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Prologue: A powerful web framework written in Nim
Prologue is a powerful and extensible web framework written in Nim language.
What are some alternatives?
rust-bindgen - THIS CRATE IS DEPRECATED, please use https://github.com/servo/rust-bindgen.
jester - A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.
cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++
awesome-nim - A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
rusty-cheddar - A Rust crate for automatically generating C header files from Rust source file.
nim-playground-frontend - The front-end for https://play.nim-lang.org
flutter_rust_bridge - Flutter/Dart <-> Rust binding generator, feature-rich, but seamless and simple.
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
tch-rs - Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.
httpbeast - A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server written in Nim.
Module Linker - browse modules by clicking directly on "import" statements on GitHub
norm - A Nim ORM for SQLite and Postgres