C2Rust with Stephen Crane

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