alt Hacker News> One thing I used to hope for is better interop between C++ and Rust … But after closely following discussions in the Rust committee, I do not think this is likely to happen soon.
Interesting. I thought C++ interop was one of the top priorities right now.
It’s one of the top items mentioned in recent language progress reports, the Rust foundation received a million dollar grant to work on it, and there was a talk at the most recent RustConf about how Google is doing Rust/C++ interop.
Curious to know what discussions led to that conclusion.
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I think it could be different timelines. The Google projects interested in better C++ interop have been around for 2 decades - Chromium and Android. They’ll be ok if the effort bears fruit in a year or two.
The latest on this project is in this update - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/issues/388. They’re working on it, but no progress yet.
I think the author wanted something now, which is a completely acceptable reason to start his own project.
I was refering to this: https://hackmd.io/@rust-lang-team/rJvv36hq1e
I don't know if they later changed their minds. From the meetings notes it seemed they didn't want implement a C++ frontend in rustc.