rust language

[henrikrudstrom]

Are there any plans to implement support for Rust?

[johanbrandhorst]

If we're talking about generating protobuf stubs, there should be no reason it doesn't already work with Rust, though I'm not familiar with the exact generation patterns commonly used. What generator plugin do you want to use? It needs to be available in the $PATH for buf to find it.

[bufdev]

Buf doesn't support a specific language - plugins (such as those for rust) are separate from Buf, and Buf supports all languages.

Specifically if you're looking for prost, see tokio-rs/prost#492

[johanbrandhorst]

https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/tree/master/protobuf-codegen#protoc-gen-rust is also available if you want something today, but note that it strips the import paths from the protobuf files and dumps all files in the same directory.

[hexfusion]

Buf doesn't support a specific language - plugins (such as those for rust) are separate from Buf, and Buf supports all languages.

Specifically if you're looking for prost, see tokio-rs/prost#492

The prost protoc plugin appears close to being complete even though the issue is closed....[1]. As noted protoc-gen-rust has shortcomings and possible future maintenance issues[2].

[1] tokio-rs/prost#492 (comment)
[2] https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/blob/master/doc/past-present-future.md

[hexfusion]

see https://github.com/neoeinstein/protoc-gen-prost