On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, at 07:41 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:06:39PM -0700, Eric Rahm wrote: > > Interesting points. > > > > - *using breakpad* - was the problem that creating wrappers to access > > the c/c++ code was too tedious? Could bindgen help with that, if not it > > would be interesting gather some details about why it wouldn't work and > > file bugs against it. > > - *pingsender* - was something like https://hyper.rs/ not around when > > you were working on it or is this a case of finding the things you want > > can > > be difficult in rust-land? Either way it might be a good idea for us to > > put > > together a list of "sanctioned" crates for various tasks. > > Note that pingsender is a small self-contained binary. I'm afraid writing > in > in rust would make it very much larger.
While this is probably true, it's also a best-case scenario for writing a component in Rust: it doesn't have to call into *any* Gecko C++ code. We also have zero visibility into failures in helper programs like this, so the stability gains we get from using Rust instead of C++ are outsized in this case. -Ted _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
