Re: Rewriting (part of) gnunet in another programming language (Was: Re: Debian 10 build warnings, wiki enhancements, Questions)

[Jacky Alcine]

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:24:21 PM PST Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
> > Having a re-implementation of libgnunetutil in Rust would be a good
> > start.  The recent crypto changes might facilitate this, as they were
> > done to make the re-implementation of libgnunetutil's crypto in Go
> > easier, and hence should also facilitate the same for a Rust library.
> 
> libgnunetutil correspond to the following header:
> 
>   https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/src/include/gnunet_util_lib.h

Re-implementation wouldn't be necessary (at least not heavily). FFI is a thing 
in Rust and it can resolve the symbols from C into Rust very simply!

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