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I swear, I thought clicking on this, I was going to read about a CI/CD system built for Rust in Rust...

Yeah, anything with Rust in the title makes it to the front page, so expect anyone writing on icy weather conditions to post it to HN for the extra clicks.

Corrosion is actually a great name for a Rust tool. I expect someone to steal that soon

It is the C/C++ interop lib https://github.com/corrosion-rs/corrosion

It was already promising like 2 years ago or whatever when I played with it but not quite ready for prime time.

Do you have recent experience?

We’re using it during the C++ to rust transition for fish-shell (which was a CMake project). No real complaints, had to hack around a few things but the changes have been mostly upstreamed.

Oh man I love fish. I spent so long in settings where I had to SSH into random prod boxes and so I’ve tried to drag bash along for the ride.

But in 2023? That use case isn’t a big deal anymore.

I’m going to treat myself and go fish properly.

Thank you for your work on it and the reminder to do something nice for myself today :)

Wasn't Rust named after the fungus, not the oxide?

(though I guess you can argue the fungus was itself named after the oxide)

Between the fungus and the oxide, it's logical they landed on a crab.

Indeed - especially as a testing tool.

There was also https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode

It's seems like nature is rewriting it in Rust all the time .

I love the metal-related naming of Rust's environment. Quite charming.

The weird thing about being an uber geek: You see this headline and assume the article is about a popular programming language!

And we have a project named Corrosion: https://github.com/corrosion-rs/corrosion

They should probably change the name of the compound to prevent confusion.

A true uber geek would see Corrosion and Rust and think its an article about Oxidation, because it makes sense.

In case you referred to the chemical reaction, "Oxidation" is also the name of the project to integrate Rust in Firefox,[1] and in general is semifrequently used to mean the process of rewriting legacy code bases in Rust and thus "oxidizing" them.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

(Nb. originally Rust was named after the order of parasitic fungi Pucciniales.)

In turn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)

> Rusts get their name because they are most commonly observed as deposits of powdery rust-coloured or brown spores on plant surfaces.

"We want to make rust just go away, and it just won’t. So we negotiate."

Poetic words. Not to be taken out of context, of course.

As the article states, corrosive environments cause an acceleration of rust development, and salt water is often a leading cause. Therefore, if you want to prevent rust, you must avoid C.

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