Top 6 Rust Platform specific Projects

nix

12 2,526 9.4 Rust

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs (by nix-rust)

Project mention: I was wrong about rust | /r/rust | 2023-05-20

If we drop std Rust ceases to be economical due to the time it would take to reimplement the data structures and IO interfaces it provides, not to mention the event loop crate we use (calloop). At that point we'd be relying on so much FFI via eg. nix that the relative safety would be diminished too. After reimplementing all that it's not clear to me that we'd even save that much size, but I suppose it's possible.

winapi-rs

14 1,795 0.0 Rust

Rust bindings to Windows API

Project mention: Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-05

Vtables are pretty solved as well. I do a lot of Windows COM interop. Using the `windows` crate, vtables for COM interfaces are relegated to an implementation detail - instead you simply implement a (typically safe!) trait:
https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3...
Which can then be converted to a refcounted smart pointer:
https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win3...
All driven by win32 sdk parsing and metadata.
But suppose we want to roll our own, because we tend to prefer `winapi` but it lacks definition. That's not too terrible either:
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/thindx-xaudio2/blob/master/...
I could more heavily lean on my macros ala `windows`, but I went the route of manual control for better doc comments, more explicit control of thread safety traits to match the existing C++ codebase, etc.
Is there some pointer casting? Yes. Is it annoying or likely to be what breaks? No. What is annoying?
• Stacked borrows and narrowing spatial provenance ( https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/1025 - this can be "solved" by sticking to pointers ala `windows`, or by choosing a different provenance model like rustc might be doing?)
• Guarding against panics unwinding over an FFI boundary. This is at least being worked on, but remains unfinished ( https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2945-c-unwind-abi.html )
• Edge case ABI weirdness specific to C++ methods ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220113-00/?p=10... , https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/issues/523 )

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rust-fuse

0 1,028 0.0 Rust

Rust library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)
inotify-rs

1 245 5.9 Rust

Idiomatic inotify wrapper for the Rust programming language
rust-iptables

0 81 1.9 Rust

Rust bindings for iptables
sys-mount

0 40 5.6 Rust

High level FFI binding around the sys mount & umount2 calls, for Rust

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