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cxx reviews and mentions

• Zngur: A C++/Rust interop tool
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2024
• Enlightenmentware
  22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2024

  https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx

  and my own ones (sorry to again link these, but I do not know of any others):

• Rust is having a positive effect in C/C++
  2 projects | /r/rust | 7 Dec 2023

  There are cxx and autocxx, what else do you propose to do?

• Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023

  I would like to see a comparison of how this compares to Rust. In terms of interoperability it has Cxx (https://cxx.rs) to offer safe bindings to C++ but also has great support for Android, Linux and many other systems. You don't even need to hack together Windows bindings (as explained in the blog post) because Microsoft offers official bindings (https://crates.io/crates/windows). I'm not sure if I'd call it a superpower if any potential interoperability has to be written to be used (compared to it already being available). Or rather, in comparison to what is interoperability a Swift superpower? Certainly not C++ or C which can be used in a far wider set of targets.

• Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023

  We selected Qt as a cross-platform solution. The C++/Rust interface is the clunkiest and ugliest part of the application, and rather complex because some state is shared between several windows in the GUI and several threads in the backend, and any component might modify that state at any time, and updates have to be transmitted to the other components without introducing inconsistencies. Using cxx [1] helped a little, though.

  The project began in 2020, and I'm not sure what I'd choose as a GUI framework today – definitely not Qt Widgets, though.

  [1] https://cxx.rs/

• Link a C static library to rust cargo project
  2 projects | /r/rust | 24 Jun 2023

  If the build process for the C library isn't too involved I recommend using cxx bridge (https://cxx.rs/) and letting cargo handle the build and linking. cxx basically allows you to describe the bidirectional interface (although it sounds like you only need 1 direction, which is fine too) in Rust code and it provides a "good enough" API for compiling C code inside the build.rs file.

• ffizz: Build a Beautiful C API in Rust
  6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023

  The tooling for the first kind -- calling Rust from another language -- is a bit less developed, and tends to rely on code generation that doesn't necessarily produce a natural C API. cbindgen, uniffi, cxx, and Diplomat all take this course.

• Best practices in creating a Rust API for a C++ library? Seeking advice from those who've done it before.
  7 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023

  I would like to utilize OMPL's functionality in Rust code, so I want to call into OMPL C++ code somehow in Rust. I've seen two (non-mutually-exclusive) options so far: - rust-cpp, which allows you to write C++ code in Rust within the cpp!() macro. - cxx, which allows you to define both sides of the FFI boundary manually (as opposed to bindgen's automatic generation).

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (20/2023)!
  4 projects | /r/rust | 15 May 2023

  I'm not sure how to do this in cxx; issues like https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx/issues/447 suggest that this isn't settled yet?

• Hello r/Rust! We are Meta Engineers who created the Open Source Buck2 Build System! Ask us anything! [Mod approved]
  9 projects | /r/rust | 3 May 2023

  I use non-vendored dependencies for the Buck build in https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx.

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