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@varsock rust has very good code generation for C (and sometimes C++ as well) headers via
bindgen
(https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen). This allows you to potentially make minimal changes to the code without having to refactor to use a new protocol on the legacy side, and has faster performance (benchmark to confirm), since there’s no serialization/deserialization step. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html for how this is done manually.@varsock If you plan to refactor the architecture to convert things into microservices, grpc is also a solid way to go.