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Extending Emacs in Rust with Dynamic Modules

Tuấn-Anh Nguyễn

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Status: Cancelled
Duration: 20 minutes

Description

Dynamic module support has been available since Emacs 25. It can be used to extend Emacs with native libraries, for performance, OS-specific features, or other functionalities that would take a lot of time to re-implement in Lisp. The officially supported language is C, which is tedious and error-prone to use. This talk discusses a safe alternative that is also a lot more convenient: writing these dynamic modules in Rust.

Outline

• Walking through creating a simple dynamic module in Rust, including setting up CI.
• Going through and explaining the available APIs.

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