[HN Gopher] FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed fo...
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       FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed for free online
        
       Author : hnarn
       Score  : 85 points
       Date   : 2021-05-31 08:11 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | ryanmentor wrote:
       | I wish there was a networking event!
       | 
       | Edit: for people to meet and talk to people, like speed
       | networking
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Looking forward to
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       | "Porting the Oberon system to the RISC-V instruction set
       | architecture"
       | 
       | https://foss-north.se/2021/speakers-and-talks.html#rsolbjorg
        
       | karmakaze wrote:
       | If anyone happens to know, can you make a lib in Rust and call it
       | from Rust or C?
       | 
       | > zbus: Why oh why? also how?
       | 
       | From that link:
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       | > D-Bus is a popular IPC mechanism [...] there was only one Rust
       | D-Bus crate and [...] not happy [...] that it depends on a
       | notoriously bad C library, libdbus. zbus, was created out of this
       | demand for a pure Rust API that makes D-Bus easy and simple.
        
         | steveklabnik wrote:
         | Yes, you can call a library written in Rust from C. You need to
         | do some work to make it work, but it can be done. There was
         | even a project to implement a libc in Rust, though I haven't
         | heard about it in a while, I'm not sure what it's current state
         | is.
        
           | vlmutolo wrote:
           | It sounds like you're thinking of relibc.
           | 
           | https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/
           | 
           | From someone who only loosely follows the project, it seems
           | like things are going really well.
        
           | karmakaze wrote:
           | Thanks for the info. I'm one of perhaps many who wish had a
           | need to use Rust in day to day work. In the meantime, Go or
           | Ruby with Sorbet isn't the worst.
        
             | steveklabnik wrote:
             | One of, if not the first, production uses of Rust was a
             | Ruby gem :)
        
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