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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by collinmanderson on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:19PM (#11341654)
I'm new to Rust. It is possible for a program written in C to link to a library written in Rust?

Is it theoretically possible to rewrite Sqlite in Rust and still maintain compatibility with programs written in C?

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by dbaupp on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:59PM (#11341811)
Yeah, it's one of Rust's strongest features, as it allows progressive migration of native code, and also allows Rust to serve as a fast/low-overhead extension language for Ruby and Python (etc.).

More details:

- http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html#calling-rust-code-fro... - http://doc.rust-lang.org/1.6.0/book/rust-inside-other-langua...

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