Thanks for posting this to HN! Author here, happy to answer any questions.

(By the way, I did not originally start the project, though I've worked quite a bit on the safe abstractions that are mentioned in the roadmap).

I've said this before on here and I'll say it again. The QEMU code base is a nightmare. The amount of fake C++ is mind numbing. Every time I come across a variable or strict declaration or method with the word "class" in it, I'm reminded of how much easier the whole thing would've been with C++. You can't even compile C++ into QEMU because of how the headers use keywords. That's not even touching their macro abuse template functions. You know what has templates and classes? C++. And constructors. There's just so much.

All this to say: if Rust can make it in, that's great, because I'm tired of dealing with C's simplicity for more complicated tasks. I'm not a rust user but if it lets me use classes and templates, I'll switch over

Any ideas why people are relying on distro packaged Rust for development instead of rustup? For Rust it feels weird making development choices around several year old versions of the language.

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