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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...

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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

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.

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