Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
by snovv_crash on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:15AM
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Add a closed source dependency in Rust and see how far cargo takes you.
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Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
by linkdd on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:19AM
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I assume the closed source dependency is distributed as a .a/.so/.dll file, then you can use bindgen[0].
Still, yes it's a bit more complicated. But can we not pretend that the non-existent toolchain in C/C++ is easier in 99% of use cases?
[0] - https://medium.com/dwelo-r-d/using-c-libraries-in-rust-13961...
Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
by snovv_crash on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:50AM
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No, I want a closed source Rust dependency. Otherwise it's going through a C API and I lose all of the benefits of using Rust.
Once you solve this problem, C++ & CMake are of similar complexity for C++ dependencies.
Otherwise to compare C++ toolchains, if it's distributed as a .a file, just adding -l/path/to/libclosed.a works for C++, can't get more simple than that. Or one line in the CMake file with basically the same thing.