Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to provide a generator for SKilL that targets Rust. Since Rusts type system enforces strict rules to offer guaranteed thread safety the generated binding has to accommodate these rules, which makes it difficult to create a graph with cycles. A lot of the effort goes into the research and creation of solutions for the missing inheritance between structs and the resulting missing casting functionality in the language. In conjunction an option has to be found that allows Rusts rules to be enforced at runtime that works with the enhanced inheritance support. Peculiarly, the resulting implementation is not able to benefit from Rusts rules in regard to safe parallelism, as the runtime enforcement of these rules inhibits parallelism. To validate that the implementation works as expected pre-existing functional tests are used. Additionally performance tests are executed to see how Rust bindings fare against a reference implementation in C++.