.NET Examples/Implementation?

[christophwille]

https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/tree/develop/implementations has a couple languages/runtimes already - does a .NET implementation exist somewhere already?

Same goes for examples, because eg https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/tree/develop/examples/rust/tcp_inlet_and_outlet would be nice to try in .NET before an actual implementation exists.

[mrinalwadhwa]

Hey @christophwille. Thank you for starting this discussion.

For most language implementations we want to wrap the Rust implementation of Ockam using using FFI.

From what I can tell, this is possible in .NET and would look a lot like calling a C library. This way we can keep most of our sensitive cryptographic pieces in Rust and expose an idiomatic C# / F# api in .NET

We don't have a .NET implementation in our near term roadmap, but if someone in the open source community would like to work on it, we would be thrilled to help.

[thomcc]

Yes, it should be possible for us to call from C# into Rust via each respective language's FFI. I have some experience here (calling C++ from C# code at a prior job which used Unity), and it worked well.