Add Rust support (Corrosion) into C/C++ package?

[mickaelistria]

(This is more food for thought)
It seems like there is a big porosity between the C, C++ and Rust ecosystem nowadays; and even in term of underlying tools technology (debugger, LSP seem common to CDT and ShellWax...). Would it make sense to include Eclipse Corrosion into the C/C++ package to let its developers more easily adopt Rust (as some companies such as Microsoft have started to do on some of their products)?

[jonahgraham]

It may be a good idea. IIRC Corrosion uses LSP and DAP? As CDT is moving to using LSP (but not DAP though) the alignment becomes a little easier. I have raised eclipse-cdt/cdt#949 so the CDT community knows about this too.

[mickaelistria]

Corrosion does use LSP, but for debug it uses a gdb-wrapper with the gdb frontend that is provided by CDT.

[jonahgraham]

That it uses cdt for debug is great as that means it should provide a very unified experience between cdt (lsp version) and corrosion.

[jonahgraham]

We discussed this at the most recent CDT call - eclipse-cdt/cdt#967 - and the conclusion was "supporting Rust sounds like a good idea, when we get an owner to support ongoing Rust work we should revisit again"