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embed-c
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When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
This one runs the C code as a program, so the code doesn't really communicate. I made a proof of concept some time ago of a macro that really translates C to Rust at compile time: https://github.com/zdimension/embed-c
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The perfect language
literally this
- Embed-C: Embed C code at compile time inside Rust using C2Rust
- Tired of safe programming? Embed C directly in your Rust code
c2rust
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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 C compiler in GCC (GCJ), but it's pretty out of date now.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 β 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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