Re-implement duktape version using rust as glue code.

[creationix]

https://twitter.com/creationix/status/740367352533909504

[yoshuawuyts]

Omg yes! - This gets me mad excited

[fzzzy]

Will this work occur on a branch?

[fzzzy]

I see that there is already rust code in master.

[creationix]

So I think these are the next steps. If anyone knows of a better plan of attack, let's talk about it.

1. Replace miniz with a rust library and finally finish/fix zip writing from the binary.
2. Replace read_from_zip, scan_from_zip, read_from_file, scan_from_file with rust.
3. Replace main.c with main.rs by using existing duktape and libuv bindings for rust.

Step 3 is large and will obsolete half the code written in 1 and 2, so should we just jump straight to it?

[Fishrock123]

@creationix Sounds like we should do number 3 first.

[creationix]

I've been doing some research. There are existing duktape and libuv bindings for rust already on crates.io, but they are not complete or updated recently.

I guess the next step is to write (or update/finish) rust bindings for the two languages. And start this as part of step 3 using our app as a way to manually test the integration.

[ashleygwilliams]

sounds like a good plan! a smaller first step is to get set up with cargo so that we're using rust via crates. thinking i might tackle that- thoughts?

[creationix]

I'll start a new implementation that's started as a rust bin. We can leave the mostly C folder alone for now.

[creationix]

I just added the rusty-duktape version. The main is just the sample from the getopts docs. A first step would be fixing that to use the nucleus CLI interface.

[creationix]

https://github.com/creationix/nucleus/pull/20

[creationix]

Depends on #24 and #24

[Fishrock123]

https://github.com/nucleus-js/rustyduk