I would like to try to rewrite a little app I wrote using PyQt5 and Shapely, the C binding of GEOS for python, with React,Tauri and geos, the C binding for Rust, as an exercise. The app checks for intersection and crossing between a few thousand lines and a polyline. Is this currently possible with geos?
(Good grief -- when I saw the subject I for a split second thought you were referring to GEOS and I almost spontaneously died from coolness overload).
Whenever you're wondering what the state of a crate is, there are a few first steps you should take:
- Look at the crate's page on crates.io to see if there are any comments about the project's status.
- Check the project repository (how old the repo is, and how recent the most recent commits are), and check the issues to see if issues are being worked on.
- Browse the crate's documentation to get a feel for whether the things you expect to be there are there.
From a quick look at the geos crate, it seems to have a pretty long history and be maintained by people who have a genuine interest in it, but from a very surface-level inspection it looks like the preferred crate is to use geo, which the geos crate has methods to go to/from.
To me it looks like the chances are pretty good that whatever functionality you used in the Python binding will be available in the Rust crate. Give it a try and see. 
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