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Re:Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin... by Ryuuke on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:31AM (#24959693)
I've tried to use rust on mobile apps, but type conversion & manual memory management does make using it really hard and unappealing. Did you find a better way using rust that mitigate theses kinds of problems ?
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Re:Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin... by rapsey on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:40AM (#24959743)
It all depends on your integration point and use case. The extra interopability work has to pay for itself. One possible trick is to use a message passing architecture and pass json/protobuf messages between the code bases.

Some companies also use lots of ffi code generation tools.

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