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This seems to miss `cppmm` (C++--)[1].

This crate is currently mainly aimed at helping people from the Rust group of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) to make wrappers for the visual effects ecosystem of libs.[2]

It is nevertheless very useful for all types of other cases.

[1] https://github.com/vfx-rs/cppmm

[2] The above just means effort is prioritized regarding the blockers these libs present due to the resp. C++ features they use.

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I missed more: There are a lot of tools out there addressing special cases. Those typically address certain C++ sub-eco-systems that follow certain rules that make the mapping in some special cases better.

Most of these are either built on top of cxx or are similar in spirit. So I did not list all of them. The original presentation was only 30 min and there is only so much you can ask a person to read in a blog post:-)

I did try to make it clear that my list is in no way exhaustive.

Great, so now we have cxx, autocxx, crubit and cppmm. The Rust folks should convene an actual Working Group on this issue, there's clearly a lot of demand for a solution.

The problem is that the different crates typically address certain sub-eco-systems and produce better results for that one dialekt spoken there. It is hard to generalize all that.

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