Status of Sodium-Rust?

[dakom]

@clinuxrulz this might be for you -

I started reading up on Rust at nights and I really wish I had a good excuse to use it at work... seems like a wonderful mix of ideas I love from C and functional javascript (e.g. Sanctuary) - and some things I would love if I got into Haskell too

For my spare-time fun stuff - I'm hoping to jump in and build something in the nearish-distant future... maybe Pong or something (finally, hehe).

Question - is the Rust version stable? Are there some caveats one should be aware of before using it in production? Do you need help working on some part of it?

Just kinda collecting info to put in the back of my head for now - nothing practical yet.

[clinuxrulz]

I believe there is a few memory management issues still. If I implemented accum / collect without any trickery like Java's impl, then it would leak memory. Other than that all the translated tests pass.

After I'm done implementing the c++ push pull reference implementation, I plan to redo the rust implementation in push pull. The exposed API will be the same, so no changes to your code if you experiment now.

One pain point is you'll be forced to redesign some of your data structors around shared memory (wrapping in Rc<RefCell<...>> a lot). So that your sodium listener can modify the application state. I could not find a way to avoid this.

I'm also not aware of anyone who has actually used the Rust version. So it has not been heavily tested.