# haxe-ui
- c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:01 AMin rust, it kind of just works - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:01 AMgotcha... so lack of extended types and lack of certain libs basically? - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:01 AMyeah - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:02 AMhaxelib is great, but haxe is still a pretty small community - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:02 AMbut, on the other hand, there's no good gui library for rust yet (in my opinion) - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:03 AMhaxeui is infinitely better than trying to wrangle gtk or native windows bindings - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:04 AMyeah, fair enough... how easy / hard is interop with rust? I guess it can be just like interop with c/cpp - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:04 AMmaybe even simpler because of the borrow checker (or more complex)... maybe we page our local resident "mr rust" 🙂 - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:05 AMit's a pain - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:05 AMoh yeah? - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:05 AMive spent the last 9 hours trying to pass some strings back and forth - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:05 AMthis is partially due to hxcpp being bad and dumb and partially because both haxe and rust have very many things that are very difficult to represent in C, which is their only common interface - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:06 AMcan rust interop with c/c++ pretty easily? - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:06 AMyes, kind of - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:06 AMi could use a rust library that can handle haxe's serialisation format, but that would mean everything would have to be strings, which isn't great - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:07 AMso cant you just design an interface as if you were gonna consume rust "from C/C++" and then just write hxcpp externs for that? - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:07 AMyes - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:07 AMyou can - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:07 AM... im sensing a "but" 🙂 - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:07 AMi have managed to do this by doing that - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:07 AMagain, it took 9 hours - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:08 AMright, isnt that just because there are (were) alot of unknowns? - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:08 AMso that data in the list is coming from rust? - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:09 AMyes, but also because hxcpp is very annoying to do things with and very slow to recompile - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:09 AMyep - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:09 AMpretty neat 🙂 - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:09 AMthanks - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:11 AMi still havent found a """nice""" way to write the haxe extern stuff """properly""", so i have this nonsense in my haxe file, this other nonsense in a cpp file, and then finally this third bit of nonsense in my rust project - c
clever-yak-82528
01/22/2023, 9:12 AMthe rust stuff has a bunch of dodgy code and it doesn't free memory properly, but im gonna worry about that once it works - b
bright-gpu-74537
01/22/2023, 9:14 AMwell, i guess its the nature of the beast, ie, having to marshal stuff between the two, but i guess you could build a generic help lib for all that?