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Looking forward to

"Porting the Oberon system to the RISC-V instruction set architecture"

https://foss-north.se/2021/speakers-and-talks.html#rsolbjorg

I wish there was a networking event!

Edit: for people to meet and talk to people, like speed networking

If anyone happens to know, can you make a lib in Rust and call it from Rust or C?

> zbus: Why oh why? also how?

From that link:

> D-Bus is a popular IPC mechanism [...] there was only one Rust D-Bus crate and [...] not happy [...] that it depends on a notoriously bad C library, libdbus. zbus, was created out of this demand for a pure Rust API that makes D-Bus easy and simple.

Yes, you can call a library written in Rust from C. You need to do some work to make it work, but it can be done. There was even a project to implement a libc in Rust, though I haven’t heard about it in a while, I’m not sure what it’s current state is.

Thanks for the info. I'm one of perhaps many who wish had a need to use Rust in day to day work. In the meantime, Go or Ruby with Sorbet isn't the worst.

One of, if not the first, production uses of Rust was a Ruby gem :)

It sounds like you're thinking of relibc.

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/

From someone who only loosely follows the project, it seems like things are going really well.

and day 2 is starting now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpGgeXHZr0M

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