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Porting Libyaml to Safe Rust: Some Thoughts

by Simon Ask Ulsnes simonask.github.io 16 min read

The following is a loose collection of thoughts that came up while porting unsafe-libyaml to safe, idiomatic Rust, which may be useful to someone else who is considering "rewriting it in Rust", as the ancient journeyman prayer goes.

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