alt Hacker NewsOne of rust's strengths is it's ability to interface relatively easily with existing c code without having to rewrite absolutely everything in rust. I don't think that is something we want to give up.
One of rust's strengths is it's ability to interface relatively easily with existing c code without having to rewrite absolutely everything in rust. I don't think that is something we want to give up.
build.rs changes nothing about how easy it is to integrate with C. What does simplify: figuring out how to supply library you need at build time.
Which is the result of how bad dependency managment is outside (i.e. DLL-hell).
Pretty much all other use cases of build.rs can be sandboxed. Well, there is sqlx that wants to connect to database at expansion time to compile check-queries (yew).