corrosion VS cxx

Compare corrosion vs cxx and see what are their differences.

cxx

Safe interop between Rust and C++ (by dtolnay)
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corrosion cxx
5 97
914 5,386
4.6% -
8.1 9.3
21 days ago 4 days ago
CMake Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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corrosion

Posts with mentions or reviews of corrosion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.

cxx

Posts with mentions or reviews of cxx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Rust is having a positive effect in C/C++
    2 projects | /r/rust | 7 Dec 2023
    There are cxx and autocxx, what else do you propose to do?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 7 Dec 2023
    The Rust project doesn't need to have "will", people outside it can contribute to solve their own needs—such as it seems to be the case with https://cxx.rs/ .
  • Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    We selected Qt as a cross-platform solution. The C++/Rust interface is the clunkiest and ugliest part of the application, and rather complex because some state is shared between several windows in the GUI and several threads in the backend, and any component might modify that state at any time, and updates have to be transmitted to the other components without introducing inconsistencies. Using cxx [1] helped a little, though.

    The project began in 2020, and I'm not sure what I'd choose as a GUI framework today – definitely not Qt Widgets, though.

    [1] https://cxx.rs/

  • Link a C static library to rust cargo project
    2 projects | /r/rust | 24 Jun 2023
    If the build process for the C library isn't too involved I recommend using cxx bridge (https://cxx.rs/) and letting cargo handle the build and linking. cxx basically allows you to describe the bidirectional interface (although it sounds like you only need 1 direction, which is fine too) in Rust code and it provides a "good enough" API for compiling C code inside the build.rs file.
  • ffizz: Build a Beautiful C API in Rust
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023
    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.
  • Best practices in creating a Rust API for a C++ library? Seeking advice from those who've done it before.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023
    I would like to utilize OMPL's functionality in Rust code, so I want to call into OMPL C++ code somehow in Rust. I've seen two (non-mutually-exclusive) options so far: - rust-cpp, which allows you to write C++ code in Rust within the cpp!() macro. - cxx, which allows you to define both sides of the FFI boundary manually (as opposed to bindgen's automatic generation).
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (20/2023)!
    4 projects | /r/rust | 15 May 2023
    I'm not sure how to do this in cxx; issues like https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/issues/447 suggest that this isn't settled yet?
  • Hello r/Rust! We are Meta Engineers who created the Open Source Buck2 Build System! Ask us anything! [Mod approved]
    9 projects | /r/rust | 3 May 2023
    I use non-vendored dependencies for the Buck build in https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx.
  • Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
    6 projects | /r/programming | 29 Apr 2023
    There's also the cpp and cxx crates for doing C++/Rust interop, but they probably aren't appropriate to use in all cases. The C ABI is definitely the safest way to go unless you're really trying to marry Rust and C++ code bases, not just writing library bindings.
  • How can I use rust libraries in C++
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 16 Apr 2023
    There's also cxx (can't vouch for it personally but it claims to make things a lot easier) https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx

What are some alternatives?

When comparing corrosion and cxx you can also consider the following projects:

cbindgen - A project for generating C bindings from Rust code

rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

autocxx - Tool for safe ergonomic Rust/C++ interop driven from existing C++ headers

uniffi-rs - a multi-language bindings generator for rust

rust-cpp - Embed C++ directly inside your rust code!

ritual - Use C++ libraries from Rust

libfive - Infrastructure for solid modeling

rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering

cmake-d - cmake for D2

axolotl - A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs

gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3

simdutf8 - SIMD-accelerated UTF-8 validation for Rust.