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Re:Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome by kazagistar on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:33PM (#24216862)
The problems listed aren't the oop, they are the memory and thread safety rules of rust, that prevent all the null pointer dereferencing and leaky memory that a "dumb" C++ wrapper allows.
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Re:Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome by Const-me on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:05PM (#24219148)
Here's a quote from the article:

> We think the hardest part of this is imagining a safe way to pass types between Rust and C++. That requires auto-generated shim code on both the Rust and C++ side.

I'll be very surprised if they'll be able to make a production-quality solution. The languages are just too different, and Rust's OOP support is one of these issues.

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