Python's cryptography package introduced build time dependency to Rust in 3.4, breaking a lot of Alpine users in CI

• cryptography

  70 6,291 9.9 Python

  cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

  

I'm mostly just happy to see that Rust is finding its way into widely used Python packages even if it seems to be just a test for now judging from the lib.rs file.

• rustc_codegen_gcc

  33 9 9.6 Rust

  libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc (by antoyo)

It depends on the specific design and on your perspective. rustc_codegen_gcc is an attempt to combine the existing rustc frontend with GCC, so it could be considered either a GCC backend for rustc or a rustc frontend for GCC. Perhaps "backend" is a bit more accurate since rustc is the main process and is driving GCC as a library. But gccrs is an attempt to write a frontend from scratch, so it could only be considered a Rust frontend for GCC (or GCC frontend for Rust - the order doesn't really matter). When I said "GCC frontend" I meant to encompass both approaches.

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• gccrs

  102 2,255 10.0

  GCC Front-End for Rust

  

• semver

  720 7,020 2.3

  Semantic Versioning Specification

  

Semver only applies to public APIs. https://semver.org/ says the following.

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

If rustc supported compiling to C, it could add a mode that automatically runs the C compiler on the output, resulting in the same interface as a native port of rustc, just a bit slower. This could work with not only GCC, but any C compiler. Targeting a platform where the official compiler is some antiquated fork of GCC or proprietary fork of Clang, or perhaps a completely proprietary compiler? Having issues with LLVM version incompatibilities when submitting bitcode to Apple's App Store? Or perhaps you want to compare the performance of LLVM, GCC, Intel's C compiler, and MSVC? Going through C would solve all those problems.

• Poetry

  377 29,483 9.7 Python

  Python packaging and dependency management made easy

  

I still use python a bit and find poetry quite nice. It has a lot of similarities to cargo including using the new pyproject.toml file (like Cargo.toml) and handles virtual environments with a lockfile for direct and transitive dependencies.

• Nim

  346 16,060 9.9 Nim

  Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  

Also note that this is a well trodden path—the original C++ compiler cfront compiled to C. More recently, Nim compiles to C (and supports full source level debugging).

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