Hey William, I'm not really involved in Gnunet myself, but I like to let you know I too had some issues getting the C api through Rust's FFI to work the way I wanted in my Rust app. Right now I'm building a Rust app and a (unofficial) gnunet (async) bindings for it. If you want to use it for some inspiration, let me know. However, its only a beginning and I only work at it 'as I need it'. Either way, I think building Rust bindings is still quite low-level.
I think there are actually Python bindings you could use. (no experience with them) (https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-python.git/) I'm sure creating a Gnunet app is actually contributing to the project. For one thing, it will create exposure for the project, which I think it could definetally use. I wish you luck! Danny. On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 15:27 +0100, William Liquorice wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a physics student at Durham University who has been following > GNUnet > for about a year now. If someone is willing to point me in the right > direction, then I am more than willing to contribute to the project > in > some way. > > I have plenty of experience with Python, as a hobby and a little in > the > large, if that is applicable anywhere, and I'm somewhat familiar with > writing static web pages. I wouldn't trust myself to work on the C > codebase itself, as I don't have much experience with systems > programming beyond some very simple projects in C++ and Rust, and > have > no idea about writing safe C. > > Helping out with GNUnet, in some way, seems like a good way for me to > learn about contributing a free software project, while also > contributing to society at large. Also, I have might have something > that > I can contribute already. > > A few months ago I thought that trying to re-implement bits of GNUnet > would be an interesting non-trivial Rust project. The effort fell > through, learning physics and how to use Rust and C's FFIs proved to > be > impossible to do at the same time. > > As part of that, I had a go at picking the big (and rather > overwhelming) > process architecture diagram apart into a few smaller pieces. I'm > happy > to share some SVGs of these smaller diagrams, as they might aid in > understanding the different subsystems of GNUnet. > > Let me know if there's anything else that I can help with. > > Thanks, > William >
