Writing Perl extensions in Rust

Writing Perl extensions in Rust

By Vickenty Fesunov
Date: Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Advanced
Language: English
Tags: perl5 rust xs

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This talk shows how features of the new Rust language can be used to avoid some of mistakes that are easy to make when writing in XS, and introduces a library that uses these features to build an alternative API for extending Perl that is safer and easier to use.

https://github.com/vickenty/perl-xs


Attended by: Dave Rolsky (‎autarch‎), Lee Johnson, Brian Kelly, David H. Adler (‎dha‎), gary, Victor Stevko, Thomas Glase, Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎), Gonzalo Diethelm (‎gonzo‎), Dylan Hardison (‎dylan‎), Chip Salzenberg (‎Chip‎), Rob N ★ (‎robn‎), Stevan Little (‎stevan‎), brian carlson, Thomas Stanton (‎tstanton‎),