Interested to take a little tour through how #deltachat apps and the #rustlang core library are wired together?
@treefit and @WofWca provide a deep-dive into the history of apps migrating from a C-Foreign-Function-Interface to a #Rust based JSON-RPC mechanism, with entertaining horror stories like how an iOS release some years ago could delete profiles without the user intending it 😬
The post also highlights a few areas where folks interested to help could start ... https://delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-jsonrpc-bindings-exist
@treefit and @WofWca provide a deep-dive into the history of apps migrating from a C-Foreign-Function-Interface to a #Rust based JSON-RPC mechanism, with entertaining horror stories like how an iOS release some years ago could delete profiles without the user intending it 😬
The post also highlights a few areas where folks interested to help could start ... https://delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-jsonrpc-bindings-exist
Delta Chat: From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust
Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...delta.chat
