Rust in Emacs (was: Re: A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent))

Rust in Emacs (was: Re: A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent))

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

rms writes:

>>And which methods are already well-supported in Rust?
>
>Please do not assume we will or should use Rust.
>The trademark license of Rust raises a complex issue of its own.

Which makes me wonder what the situation is with libraries used by Emacs
which are written in Rust. 

One would be rsvg-2, which is difficult to compile from source in some systems…
would there be any pure-C alternative?

Thanks for any info,
/PA

Re: Rust in Emacs

[Po Lu]

Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:

> Which makes me wonder what the situation is with libraries used by Emacs
> which are written in Rust. 
>
> One would be rsvg-2, which is difficult to compile from source in some systems…
> would there be any pure-C alternative?

Older versions of librsvg are written in C, which versions Emacs
continues to support.

Re: Rust in Emacs

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

> El 8 ene 2024, a las 8:55, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> escribió:
> 
> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Which makes me wonder what the situation is with libraries used by Emacs
>> which are written in Rust. 
>> 
>> One would be rsvg-2, which is difficult to compile from source in some systems…
>> would there be any pure-C alternative?
> 
> Older versions of librsvg are written in C, which versions Emacs
> continues to support.

Thanks for the info.