alt Hacker NewsMy 2C: What we need isn't a translater, but painless FFI. The FFI tools avail like cc and bindgen make working results most of the time, but they need [manual] wrapping.
It's kind of a similar situation (Although a bit more complicated) exposing Rust libs in python; PyO3/maturin do the job, but you have to manually wrap.
So... I would like tools that call C code from rust, but with slices etc instead of pointers.
> I would like tools that call C code from rust, but with slices etc instead of pointers.
A slice is just a bundle of pointer + size. C raw interfaces vary on how they express the "size" part, so the point of wrapping is translating that information into whatever bespoke way is expected by the code you're working with.