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Add borrow checker for c/c++

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, cmake, cpp

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Sunshine, tray, and libdisplaydevice repositories, then evaluate the linked refcell-cpp option against their C and C++ code. Establish the scope and integration approach before attempting changes. Done means a borrow-checking approach is selected and applied across the named repositories, with its violations identified.

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Description

6+ months C C++ CMake effort:Extra-Large help wanted LizardByte/libdisplaydevice LizardByte/Sunshine LizardByte/tray planned priority:Medium
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Repositories

LizardByte/Sunshine, LizardByte/tray, LizardByte/libdisplaydevice

Languages/Skills/Technologies

C, C++, CMake

Description

Been playing with rust a bit, and the concept of a borrow checker seems like a good idea to add to Sunshine. I expect we may find quite a few violations.

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Estimated Effort

effort:Extra-Large

Priority

priority:Medium

Target Milestone

6+ months

Dependencies

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2
Forks
0
Avg merge
25m
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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