On: Digression 3: Corrosion – Rust Never Sleeps

[keyle]

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

[sampli → keyle]

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

[leetrout → sampli]

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

[benreesman → leetrout]

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?

[ComputerGuru → benreesman]

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.

[benreesman → ComputerGuru]

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 :)

[CUViper → sampli]

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

[aragonite → sampli]

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

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

[keyle → aragonite]

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

[MR4D → sampli]

Indeed - especially as a testing tool.

[xrd → keyle]

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.