As an old skool GNOME user, it warms my heart to see GNOME folks like @federicomena and @hergertme working with @rustlang.
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So I was getting terrified of our base libraries going obsolete really quickly - then comes Rust the Savior.
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it has the right approach of iteratively allowing us to modernize. C calling convention not going away.
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Replying to @hergertme @federicomena and
by having interfaces in C, we still get multi-language support too. (would love to see this for encryption)
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@BRIAN_____'s *ring* started as a fork of BoringSSL, but I don't know if it maintained C API compat.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @TedMielczarek @hergertme and
I started an OpenSSL-API-compatible thing but haven't found anybody interested in it.
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Replying to @BRIAN_____ @TedMielczarek and
pluggable TLS backends in glib-networking (due to licensing constraints). maybe there?
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Replying to @hergertme @TedMielczarek and
*ring* doesn't do TLS. There are separate webpki (X.509) libraries & TLS libs on top of it.
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If you already have a pluggable TLS API then it'd probably be easy to add a Rust impl.
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