What makes a library "pure" rust?

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  • steed

    Discontinued [INACTIVE] Rust's standard library, free of C dependencies, for Linux systems

    Yes, std is not pure Rust in that sense. The steed project (https://github.com/japaric/steed) attempted to create a pure Rust implementation of std and follow up projects like mustang attempt the same, so this is not as absurd as it might sound. I agree that my definition creates transitivity issues, so depending on std should not make a library "inpure".

  • windows-rs

    Rust for Windows

    Windows might be possible to construe as "Pure Rust" even under this definition, as the windows crate is Microsoft's direct projection of the Windows API into Rust, with no C headers involved. (In fact, the ABI is even extern "system", not extern "C", so you can pretend it's less C.)

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