[PD-dev] Pure Rust Pure Data Externals

[x nor]

Thanks Julian,
Hopefully it will be even more full featured at that point!
-Alex

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:06 AM Julian Brooks <jbeezez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice work Alex,
>
> Look fwd to digging through these on my return from holidays.
>
> All the best,
>
> Julian
>
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 16:57, x nor <x37v.alex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is very much still a work in progress, but recently I've been
>> working on writing pure data externals in Rust and I figured I'd share:
>>
>> https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust
>>
>> Rust can create dynamic libraries that can be loaded in C based projects
>> without the need for any external build tools, building simply uses rusts
>> `cargo` build system (and package manager).
>> I've setup the automatic binding to `m_pd.h` (puredata-sys), some ease of
>> use classes for creating externals, and a macro that generates a bunch of
>> boiler plate code so you don't have to.
>>
>> With this I've created Rust versions of the 4 example externals from the
>> HOWTO:
>> https://github.com/pure-data/externals-howto
>> https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/tree/develop/examples
>>
>> With the help of a macro and attributes, beyond the dependency setup,
>> this is all you need to write a signal external:
>>
>> https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/blob/develop/examples/xfade/src/lib.rs
>> or a control external:
>>
>> https://github.com/x37v/puredata-rust/blob/develop/examples/complex_counter/src/lib.rs
>>
>> Anyways, I figured I'd share in case anyone else is interested, maybe
>> wants to contribute or just use it themselves.
>> I'm tired/done with c/c++ and Rust has presented itself as a great
>> alternative for a lot of situations.
>> It was fun to discover that I can generate pure data externals with Rust
>> and its build system.
>>
>> --Alex
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