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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by im_down_w_otp on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:31PM (#23512435)
We do this _all the time_ as we write almost all of our software in Rust, but lots of it is for use with/in embedded systems developed in C.

It's true that you can mate up to C by exporting the C ABI everywhere. This isn't a free lunch though. There are annoying and/or weird side-effects you sometimes have to deal with when leaning heavily into doing this.

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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by andrekandre on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:39PM (#23512991)
> This isn't a free lunch though. There are annoying and/or weird side-effects you sometimes have to deal with when leaning heavily into doing this.

as a person not super-experienced in rust, im curious what kind of side-effects? binary size bloat?

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