Flatbuffers now has support for Rust - the PR was just merged in the last couple days: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/tree/master/rust/flatbuffers
I hope to find some time in the next week or two to start experimenting with this for Arrow IPC. Andy. On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:09 PM Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> wrote: > The author of the Rust version of FlatBuffers is now working on a public > fork and seems to be making good progress. I just wanted to send a quick > update on this since I am now back onto working on Arrow IPC in Rust (I'm > sure this is going to take quite a while though so don't want to get > anyones hopes up too much). For anyone that is interested, here is the > FlatBuffers branch: https://github.com/rw/flatbuffers/tree/2018-02--rust > > Andy. > > > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 4:05 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry to hear, it's a bit of a rough situation with Flatbuffers and >> Rust. One possibility is to build an interface to the Flatbuffers data >> via flatcc (https://github.com/dvidelabs/flatcc) -- I wonder if these >> bindings are header-only like C++ and if that makes things any easier >> for you. >> >> If you defined an API in Rust for reading and writing the Arrow >> metadata that does not expose any Flatbuffers-specific details, then >> once there is a production-grade Rust implementation of Flatbuffers, >> the implementation details could be swapped out without disruption. >> >> > my recent attempts at contacting the author have been unsuccessful >> >> Have you e-mailed the author directly or only pings on GitHub? Pings >> may not be making it to their inbox. >> >> Appreciate your efforts on this; I think we'll see a lot more work in >> data processing in Rust in the coming years. >> >> - Wes >> >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Andy Grove <andygrov...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Now that the refactor I've been working on has been merged, the next >> > priority for me personally with the Rust implementation is getting IPC >> and >> > integration testing working. >> > >> > Unfortunately the official Flatbuffers Rust version is not available yet >> > and my recent attempts at contacting the author have been unsuccessful >> so I >> > have started working with this fork of Flatbuffers which has Rust >> support: >> > https://github.com/josephDunne/flatbuffers. >> > >> > I was able to generate code from Schema.fbs but it doesn't compile and >> I've >> > started filing issues and debugging this. >> > >> > Working with this fork isn't ideal but I don't see what other choice I >> > have, other than just waiting for the official project to support Rust. >> > >> > I'm interested to hear if anyone has any alternate suggestions. I know >> it >> > would be possible to wrap C code but I'd like to keep the Rust >> > implementation as a pure Rust project if possible. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Andy. >> >
