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I've worked both with the Swift C++-Interop project and I've also spoken to the author of cxx.rs a little bit. The two approach the problem differently.

Swift's approach is that you only need to provide a header (which you likely already have), and the compiler does all the rest to handle the bridging for you. cxx.rs' approach is that you use this crate to write a bridging file and so long as you follow the type set that cxx.rs understands you have a bridge (int, char, std::string, std::unique_ptr etc).

They're both good approaches but the Swift approach is definitely much more ambitious and more user-friendly to the programmer.



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