rusterlium/rustler
Rustler
Rustler es un envoltorio de funciones nativas e interfaz de funciones extranjeras (FFI) que permite el desarrollo de extensiones de alto rendimiento para la máquina virtual BEAM. Sirve como puente para escribir funciones nativas en Rust que pueden ser llamadas desde entornos Erlang.
El proyecto se centra en mantener la seguridad de la memoria para evitar bloqueos del sistema y corrupción de memoria al ejecutar código compilado. Esto se logra envolviendo llamadas nativas en abstracciones seguras y aplicando las reglas de propiedad y préstamo de Rust a la gestión de memoria externa y objetos de datos estructurados.
La biblioteca proporciona mecanismos para la conversión de datos entre tipos de lenguaje y la gestión de objetos de recursos. Estas capacidades permiten pasar referencias a datos estructurados a código externo con liberación automática de memoria a través del recolector de basura del tiempo de ejecución.
Features
- Native Function Invocations - Provides the primary capability to invoke high-performance native Rust functions from a managed Erlang runtime.
- Trait-Based Term Conversions - Uses Rust traits to provide a shared interface for encoding and decoding data types between Rust and the Erlang Term Format.
- Language Interoperability Converters - Encodes and decodes values between Rust and Erlang types to ensure data compatibility across the FFI bridge.
- BEAM NIF Bridges - Serves as a specialized bridge for integrating native Rust functions into the BEAM virtual machine environment.
- Erlang NIF Development - Provides the essential tooling and safety abstractions for developing Native Implemented Functions for the Erlang VM using Rust.
- Native Function Dispatchers - Implements a high-performance NIF-based dispatch mechanism to execute native Rust functions within the BEAM virtual machine.
- Native Runtime Wrappers - Acts as a safety layer handling memory management and data conversion for native Rust code in Erlang environments.
- Rust-Erlang Integration - Facilitates the exchange and conversion of data types to combine Rust's systems programming with Erlang's actor model.
- Rust Native Extensions - Enables the creation of high-performance native extensions for the BEAM VM while preventing memory corruption.
- Safe Pointer Abstractions - Encapsulates unsafe native calls in safe Rust abstractions to prevent memory corruption and segmentation faults.
- Reference-Counting Garbage Collectors - Uses reference counting to track external memory allocations and ensure automatic cleanup by the runtime garbage collector.
- Native Memory Lifecycle Management - Implements automated memory management for native objects shared between Rust and Erlang processes.
- Resource Handles - Manages resource objects by passing references to structured data into external code with automatic memory release.
- Foreign Function Interface - Bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions in Rust.
