It would provide a nice migration path. And a way to guarantee that your nice Rust program had some terrible unsupported legacy C for the next decade or two. ;D
Kevin On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Corey Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > Much of it would be. But why? > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Huon Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On first glance it seems like C -> Rust would be very feasible via a lot of >> `unsafe`, * and *mut. >> >> >> >> On 06/01/14 13:21, Corey Richardson wrote: >>> >>> Any such conversion is going to be lossy enough as to be worthless. >>> It's only acceptable for emscripten because the web platform can't run >>> native code. But any use of Rust is already going to be targetting >>> something that can run C. >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd happy chip in for a Kickstarter-type project to automatically convert >>>> C/C++ to Rust. >>>> >>>> Anything like this exists or anyone planning on making this type of >>>> announcement? >>>> >>>> - Greg >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing >>>> with the NSA. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Rust-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rust-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
