The Big Book of Rust Interop

A guide to integrating Rust with other programming languages.

Read the rendered book.

To read, start at the introduction or see the contents in SUMMARY.md.

Building

You'll need to install mdbook, the easiest way is cargo install mdbook.

Then, mdbook build to build and mdbook serve to serve up a local copy.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

If you notice an error or think something could be improved, please open an issue or PR.

This book is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

TODO plan

Questions to answer

• Define the landscape
  • precisely, what Rust can do
  • trivial stuff
    • bindings, built in & generated
  • what the problems are
  • why you need non-trivial stuff
• Framing
  • trivial vs non-trivial work
  • semantics overlap of two languages
    • the closer the easier (representation, plus invariants)
  • most non-trivial stuff unique to a project
  • more from strategy doc?
• What can we do without non-trivial stuff?
• What does an abstraction layer do?
  • safety
  • PL semantics stuff
  • project semantics stuff
• How to write the abstraction layer?

So, how does this fit into the book format?

• bindings
• representations
• safety

Other views of docs

• answers/summary for senior managers
• questions/answers for engineers planning - can we adopt Rust? How much work will it be?