Portability of Rust in 2021

1. tch-rs

   1 37 4,742 7.5 Rust

   Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.

   

   - PyTorch/libtorch - https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs seems pretty good. But on Android and iOS this seems to be an issue. Although this issue exists for C++ as well as there are currently some hacky scripts to download the Java AAR from Maven and then extract the .so libs from there to make sure you got the thing built correctly ;). I actually went the path now to run torch mobile from Java (it's a sequence of 3 neural networks) and call my C++ code between those with JNI. It's mostly passing strings and float arrays, so not too bad. So this could work with Rust as well.

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3. jni-rs

   2 5 1,344 6.1 Rust

   Rust bindings to the Java Native Interface — JNI

   

   - JNI - how well does https://github.com/jni-rs/jni-rs work? Assuming that Firefox runs on Android and uses Rust this should be reasonable to work with?

4. cbindgen

   3 21 2,594 8.0 Rust

   A project for generating C bindings from Rust code

   

   - I still got to wrap one C library. I ran it through https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen once and seemed to work but didn't do any deeper tests.

5. tokenizers

   4 8 9,627 8.5 Rust

   💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production

   

   In sum I would like the idea to go with Rust as I more or less got to rewrite the whole thing anyway, but I am a bit skeptical if I will be able to interface with everything that might come up at some point. Or probably end up in a wrapper hell if I got to use more C++ libraries. On the other hand there are definitely a few Rust projects out there that might come in handy (for example https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers). And the build process is pretty awful right now (CMake it is but with lots of hacks).

6. com-rs

   5 4 599 0.0 Rust

   Discontinued A Rust crate for creating and consuming COM APIs

   

   regarding COM - check https://github.com/microsoft/com-rs

7. windows-rs

   6 100 11,211 9.4 Rust

   Rust for Windows

   

   There's also https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs for consuming all sorts of windows APIs (COM included)!

8. onnx-tensorflow

   7 6 1,296 0.0 Python

   Tensorflow Backend for ONNX

   

   We had a few small issues with ONNX. Export worked but when running with e.g. tflite stumbled for example across this https://github.com/onnx/onnx-tensorflow/issues/853 Also the support for sampling from distributions is generally still pretty weak, but we were able to work around that.

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10. onnxruntime

    8 63 16,330 9.9 C++

    ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator

    

    Also briefly tried https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime

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