Comment by jlarocco

3 months ago

I wish Rust would standardize their ABI already. I started a project to call Rust from Common Lisp, but haven't got very far. It's a lot of work, and they can break compatibility at any time.

If they really want to replace C and C++ then they really need to support being called from third party languages.

2 comments

jlarocco

guipsp 3 months ago

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423

SkiFire13 3 months ago

Rust already has a C ABI for those cases. Also, the C++ example is kinda bad because it doesn't have a standard ABI (only a bunch of implementation specific ones); they also mostly treat this ABI as stable, but this is also detrimental because it is making the performance of some features suboptimal (e.g. `unique_ptr`)