Allen Wyma talks with Stephen Crane, CTO of Immunant, who is working on C2Rust, a library that transpiles C99-compliant C code into unsafe Rust.
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Timestamps
- [@00:00] - C2Rust Introduction
- [@01:50] - How C2Rust works and its goal as a transpiler
- [@05:49] - Transpilers vs compilers
- [@12:30] - Unstructured control flow vs structured control flow
- [@16:32] - The process of transforming C to Rust projects
- [@19:15] - Parsing C code correctly
- [@22:13] - The importance of compiler flags on interpreting C Code
- [@28:45] - C++ vs C
- [@38:50] - When you should you look at using C2Rust
- [@45:04] - The best way to run your tests in Rust
- [@48:15] - Projects that are currently using C2Rust
- [@50:29] - Improving the usability and safety of the output of rust code
- [@53:55] - Parting thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
