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Name: curryrs

Languages: Haskell

Description: Provides easy-to-use bindings between Rust and Haskell

Sites:

• github.com/mgattozzi/curryrs
• crates.io/crates/curryrs
• docs.rs/crates/curryrs

Maintainers: @mgattozzi

Status

This project still has a lot of work that needs to get done. The latest release was 4 years ago, but there's been some commits this year.

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Name: cbindgen

Language(s): C, C++ (11)

Description: Creates C/C++ headers for Rust libraries which expose a public C API. The complement to bindgen (see #2).

Sites:

• github.com/eqrion/cbindgen
• github.com/eqrion/cbindgen/blob/master/docs.md
• crates.io/crates/cbindgen
• docs.rs/cbindgen

Maintainers: @eqrion, @emilio

Status

This project is very mature and is used in production by many in the Rust community.

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Name: node-bindgen

Languages: Node.js

Description: Easy way to write native Node.js module using idiomatic Rust

Sites:

• github.com/inifyon/node-bindgen
• crates.io/crates/node-bindgen
• docs.rs/node-bindgen

Maintainers: @infinyon

Status

Actively maintained and used with the fluvio node client.

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Name: libc

Languages: C

Description: Raw FFI bindings to platforms' system libraries

Sites:

• github.com/rust-lang/libc
• crates.io/crates/libc
• docs.rs/libc

Maintainers: @alexcrichton, @JohnTitor, @gnzlbg

Status

This project is very mature and is used in production by many in the Rust community.

Projects that need access to system calls for a given operating system would reach for this library.

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Name: dart-bindgen

Languages: Dart

Description: A tool for generating Dart FFI bindings to C Header file.

Sites:

• github.com/sunshine-protocol/dart-bindgen
• crates.io/crates/dart-bindgen
• docs.rs/crate/dart-bindgen

Maintainers: @sunshine-protocol

Status

Looks relatively new and seems like it's actively developed.

The folks that maintain dart-bindgen seem pretty excited about it. Perhaps @shekohex has more words on this section.

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Name: cxx

Languages: C++ (11)

Description: Provides a safe mechanism for calling C++ code from Rust and Rust code from C++, not subject to the many ways that things can go wrong when using bindgen or cbindgen to generate unsafe C-style bindings.

Sites:

• github.com/dtolnay/cxx
• crates.io/crates/cxx
• docs.rs/cxx

Maintainers: @dtolnay

Status

This project appears to have achieved its main goal but is still in the works (pre 1.0).

It is used by:

• Facebook for Rust–C++ FFI
• Google as an experiment in Chromium

Please share topics you think that ffi.rs should cover regarding cross-language communication.

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Name: bindgen

Languages: C, C++, Objective-C

Description: Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

Sites:

• github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen
• rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen
• crates.io/crates/bindgen
• docs.rs/bindgen

Maintainers: @emilio, @fitzgen

Status

This project is very mature and is used in production by many in the Rust community.

It is often a starting point for anyone who wants to do FFI in Rust.

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Name: winapi

Languages: C

Description: Rust bindings to the Windows API. It's like libc (see #7) but for deeper Windows-specific functionality.

Sites:

• github.com/retep998/winapi-rs
• crates.io/crates/winapi
• docs.rs/winapi

Maintainers: @retep998

Status

This project is very mature and is used in production by many in the Rust community.

Projects that need access to low level APIs on Windows would reach for this library.

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Name: cc

Languages: C, C++

Description: Rust library for build scripts to compile C/C++ code into a Rust library

Sites:

• github.com/alexcrichton/cc-rs
• crates.io/crates/cc
• docs.rs/cc

Maintainers: @alexcrichton

Status

This project is very mature (past 1.0) and is used in production by many in the Rust community.

Crates that need to call into C code often use it, especially -sys crates. It currently has 661 reverse dependencies.

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Name: nbindgen

Languages: Nim

Description: nbindgen creates Nim headers for Rust libraries which expose a public C-like API - if your library works with cbindgen it will likely work with nbindgen also.

Sites:

• github.com/arnetheduck/nbindgen
• github.com/arnetheduck/nbindgen/blob/master/docs.md
• crates.io/crates/nbindgen
• docs.rs/nbindgen

Maintainers: @arnetheduck, @eqrion, @emilio

Status

This project is young and still has a lot of work that needs to get done.

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Name: cpp

Languages: C++

Description: A build tool & macro which enables writing C++ code inline in Rust code.

Sites:

• github.com/mystor/rust-cpp
• crates.io/crates/cpp
• docs.rs/cpp

Maintainers: @mystor, @ogoffart

Status

This project is very mature but does not seem to be used by many in the Rust community (based on download graph).