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I like this idea. Been designing FFI Rust API for quite some time as my main work. Willing to help. |
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Converted to a discussion, this is not concrete enough to be an RFE. Converting to rust? This is really two questions. The first is about developer resources. We currently have a a rather small community which is actually coding plugins. What are the chances that we would expand this by a using rust instead of C++? Personally, I doubt it would work in this respect. That said, I would love to be proven wrong. The other question is about the API. The current API is extremely huge and undocumented, a situation which I think is the reason we don't have more plugin devs. To implement this is in rust actually makes no sense. So, the thing to do in this direction would be to re-define the current API and create a new API which is compatible with current code but smaller, more thought ut and and, important, documented. This is a major undertaking. We would have to verify it by re-writing some existing plugins against the new API. As I see it, the language is not really that important here. It could be modern C++ without raw pointers etc. or rust, that's not the big question. The core issue is about re-designing the API. |
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With all crashes reported I think re-writing in more pointer safe language like rust would make sense. There are open source libraries in rust to handle marine chart formats. https://github.com/manimaul/s57tiler https://github.com/manimaul/njord https://github.com/hornang/marinas https://github.com/hornang/nautograf https://github.com/Hsodergren/rust-s57 https://github.com/Hsodergren/rust-iso8211 https://github.com/iho-ohi/S-101_Portrayal-Catalogue Thanks |
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Sure, go ahead, nobody can stop you from doing it |
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OpenCPN keeps adding more C++ code. Rust would be a better option in long term.
It's memory safer by far and less verbose. Rust can interoperate with C and OpenCPN could be slowly and gradually
rewritten in it, by replacing feature by feature with rust implementations.
What do you think?
Thanks,
--MG
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