Announcing Rust bindings for ROS2

[esteve]

@ruffsl

• improving cargo build integration: colcon_cargo + tools::cargo-plugins?
• how much of rclrs could be shared with rust’s ecosystem: crates.io
• soliciting guidance from the larger friendly rust community: users.rust-lang.org
• improving message IDL integration: avoid re-generating default messages
• design goals for making the API overall more idiomatic with rust code

I’d say those items would make great GitHub tickets.

Gérard Long has just added support for Crystal after I opensourced rclrs a year ago, and he also added support for Cargo to colcon a couple of months back.

@ruffsl

Others may have more ideas I’d like to listen to. I think syncing up over a discussion would be a lot quicker than prematurely cycling across timezones on tickets that may be otherwise too unclear to tackle.

I’d love to see more activity in rclrs, but I don’t see how a working group and meeting would solve that. rclrs has been opensource for well over a year, the code is there and available for everyone to contribute to in any way they feel capable (e.g. reviewing pull requests, proposing new features, suggesting improvements, filing bug reports, etc.)