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The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (www.theregister.com)

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[–] asdfasdfasdf 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why not just use the C ABI?

And what libraries are you referring to? Almost all the ones I've used have fantastic docs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In my understanding, you can't interface with the C abi without using an unsafe block.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think there are some crates that wrap the unsafe code for you, e.g. https://github.com/rodrimati1992/abi_stable_crates/ (I haven't ever tried it).

[–] calcopiritus 0 points 1 month ago

You can just use an unsafe block though. Or make a thin wrapper that is just safe functions that inside just have an unsafe block with the C ABI function.

Even if rust had a stable ABI, you would still need that unsafe block.