Perhaps the greatest surprise of the last two years was, for me, the realization that people not only care about compiling C to Rust (for obvious reasons, such as, ahem, memory safety) – they also care about compiling Rust to C! Wait, what? I wrote about this briefly a couple years ago, but the level of interest for the project, I must say, took me somewhat by surprise. So let’s talk about compiling Rust to C a little more today. Barriers to Rust adoption Rust is making big progress in terms of ...