alt Hacker NewsThis is a viable approach for many scenarios. Uniffi is a tool/library from Mozilla that makes this a lot easier across platforms.
After a few rounds of this though it might end up seeming like it's not worth the hassle and it's easier to build the whole application in Rust.
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Mawr • yesterday at 7:54 PM
Switching out the entire ecosystem, libraries, tooling; rewriting the entire codebase; learning the new language and its idioms; and then giving up the unknown benefits of the previous language that the new language lacks (for Go->Rust this could e.g. be compile times)—generally, trading known downsides of a language for unknown downsides of another—is a huge undertaking and therefore very unlikely to ever be worth the hassle.
Lifetime and smart pointer hell is real though.