| My feeling is that it would be Herculean to take a framework 17 years in the making, and move to an entirely new language.
Inevitably, there’s be *years* of crossover time with people using both environments in the field. There’s be pressure for back-ports and a general support headache.
That said, I am an old fart. My son likes Python and is comfortable in C++ and has often said “hey dad, Rust is cool”. But he also loves 60s and 70s-era music :) Sent from my iPhone On Apr 23, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Derek Kozel <dkozel@gnuradio.org> wrote:
Hi Sam,
I started looking at using the CXX library for this, there's even a
few CMake examples. My hope is to make a Rust block similar to the
current embedded Python Block available in GRC. I've not made it to
the point of even test code though. If you want to look further into
this I'd be very interested.
https://cxx.rs
There are no plans to port the core of GNU Radio to Rust, but
Bastian Blossel has been doing some experiments around SDR runtimes
in Rust.
https://github.com/bastibl/FutureSDR
There are bindings for UHD and the SOAPY SDR device API, but I
haven't tried either.
https://github.com/samcrow/uhd-rust
https://github.com/kevinmehall/rust-soapysdr
Has anyone else looked or thought about this?
Cheers,
Derek
On 4/23/2021 8:53 PM, Carey, Samuel
Craig via GNU Radio, the Free & Open-Source Toolkit for
Software Radio wrote:
Howdy,
I’ve written GNU Radio blocks with C++ and
Python in the past, but lately I’ve been transitioning to
using Rust-lang for many of my other projects.
Does anyone know of any current Rust
integration/porting/rewriting plans or efforts for GNU Radio
(or other SDR frameworks)?
I’m really enjoying using Rust, so I’d
really like to be able to use it for SDR applications.
Thanks,
Sam
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