GTK in pure Rust?

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Just interesting, is any movement to this point, or Gods prefer C as perfect?

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You can’t rewrite GTK in pure Rust:

  • most of the underlying low level systems are exposed as C API, which means you’d have to wrap them up in Rust as well
  • you’d have to redesign the whole API to be idiomatic Rust
  • you’d have to wrap the idiomatic Rust API with a non-idiomatic C API in order to provide bindings for every other language

On top of that, GTK is 600k lines of dense C code, and it’s currently maintained by about ~5 people working on it part time, out of which only a couple are passingly familiar with Rust. Who is going to rewrite it?

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Yep, looks like impossible, in my small application I wonder of additional time taken for manual memory management. But who knows - currently lot of people do really impossible things…

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That’s generally a question only worth asking when something goes wrong—and for that, you have tools like Valgrind and ASan. Pre-emptively worrying about memory management is just a waste of time, compared to all the other issues you’re going to face.

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