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The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++(www.theregister.com)

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ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
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In my understanding, you can’t interface with the C abi without using an unsafe block.

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FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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I think there are some crates that wrap the unsafe code for you, e.g. https://github.com/rodrimati1992/abi_stable_crates/ (I haven’t ever tried it).

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You can just use an unsafe block though. Or make a thin wrapper that is just safe functions that inside just have an unsafe block with the C ABI function.

Even if rust had a stable ABI, you would still need that unsafe block.

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