JSjsjohnst·Mar 18, 2018
Here’s three reasons (more are certainly available):
https://github.com/rust-gnome/gtk
https://github.com/KISS-UI/kiss-ui/
https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod
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DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
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3 sourcesExcept this isn't guaranteed to be safe, because the implementation [1] just calls GTK in an unsafe block:
fn add<P: IsA<Widget>>(&self, widget: &P) {
unsafe {
ffi::gtk_container_add(self.to_glib_none().0, widget.to_glib_none().0);
}
}
Oh, did you believe that Rust always does checks to ensure memory safety? Well that's too bad.
Unsafe blocks are for exactly those situations where the compiler can't prove safety at compile time, giving you an escape hatch to say "this really is safe, I know what I'm doing". There are some runtime-checked abstractions built on this, but they can't help you when interacting with non-Rust code.
[1] https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk/blob/8949ac0304660f53e1fbe2850...
In Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally hereAFAIK, rust-bindgen doesn't currently have support for translating C functions and structs into anything other than the same things in Rust. It's somewhat idiomatic for manually-written bindings, layered on top of the generated ones, to take care of things like providing a memory-safe interface (which can't really be done automatically), converting between native Rust types and C representations if necessary (perhaps including things like Result vs. error codes or nulls), and adding object orientation. If you want to go full automatic, though, you can do a lot with Rust macros, so give them a try.
Examples of manual wrappers on top of bindgen - there are many:
http://erickt.github.io/blog/2014/12/13/rust-and-mdbm/
https://github.com/kenz-gelsoft/wxRust/blob/rust-servo/src/b... (I don't like the design of this one, actually)
https://gith