zbus: Why oh why? also how?
summary
Reimplements D-Bus from scratch in Rust to remove the C dependency and reduce crashes, shipping a literal rewrote D-Bus stack in Rust with a dedicated zvariant crate for wire serialization and a 1.0 stable release followed by a 2.0 beta adding an async client with streams. Provides proxy-generation from introspection XML (xmlgen tool), supports session/system buses and peer‑to‑peer, and already sees real use (Flatpak component and at least ~1,000 users reported).
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:53Background story
- 3:33What's D-Bus??
- 5:33Crash reports
- 9:42Datatypes encoding
- 23:50High-level API
- 35:33Signals and Properties
- 40:51Server-side async?
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