How far along is crABI?

[shrekushka]

The micro dependencies are a pain. crABI should make it convenient to build shared libs.
Will it ever come to reality?
I asked the same question on a couple of other boards, and all I heard was silence.

crABI v1 by joshtriplett · Pull Request #3470 · rust-lang/rfcs

Note that the most eminently bikesheddable portion of this proposal is the handling of niches, and the crABI Option and Result types built around that. There are multiple open questions specificall...

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[shrekushka]

Apparently from what I understand, the mainstream Rust community doesn't give a shit about crABI, why should I be caring then?

 

[shrekushka]

Experimental feature gate proposal `crabi` by joshtriplett · Pull Request #105586 · rust-lang/rust

Summary This experimental feature gate proposal proposes developing a new ABI, extern "crabi", and a new in-memory representation, repr(crabi), for interoperability across high-level prog...

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This was the original thesis.

 

[shrekushka]

https://crates.io/crates/abi-stable

std + tokio + 87 micro-deps
panic runtime welded to libc's abort()
300MB of debug = true symbols
Still unsafe-ly transmuting *mut c_void