Hi On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote: > lör 2025-02-22 klockan 14:57 +0200 skrev Rémi Denis-Courmont: > > Le perjantaina 21. helmikuuta 2025, 20.02.16 UTC+2 Tomas Härdin a écrit : > > > The above said, I'm not against Rust. It has some nice properties. But > > > it does not seem very "stable" so far. Perhaps this has changed in > > > recent years.. > > > > IME, it's become very usable for user-space code. Bare metal still pretty > > much > > requires unstable features, but that's not a problem for FFmpeg. > > I mean more in terms of ABI, and having to have cargo install specific > versions of the Rust compiler and so on. > > > > If we're in the habit of allowing other languages I'd be in favor of > > > allowing C++, so that we can make use of the STL containers rather than > > > rolling our own. > > > > Yikes. Rust is actually way saner for type-generic programming than C++. > > No doubt, but STL is still miles better than rolling our own > containers. >
> Anyway, rather than shoehorning Rust into this codebase it might make > more sense to contribute to NihAV instead. But only if it has a sane > parsing framework That misses the point. FFmpeg should support a "safer" language than C because for some modules its the better choice. The same way linux benefits from rust. Similarly putting rust code in a different project than linux doesnt help linux. thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
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