I want to generate Rust code from another language. I would like to generate some kind of AST, serialize it to JSON, and then somehow turn that into actual Rust source code that I can check into source control. What tools can I use to accomplish this?
To rephrase this in a hopefully clearer way:
Is there any existing tooling that can take a JSON AST (such as what's produced by clang's -ast-dump=json) and spit out Rust source code?
You may be interested in a recent thread about going the other direction from Rust to C
It's a lot more complicated than you might expect to transpile between languages.
If you're primarily interested in generating struct definitions from C headers, bindgen can do that.
Ah, sorry for being unclear: I want to write code in another language that will output Rust, not transpile. I could spit out Rust source directly, but working with strings directly is a PITA.
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