Rusty Pipes and Oxidized Wires

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Earlier this year, I began writing a native PipeWire client library in Rust. The aim is to provide a safer alternative to the bindings around the C library, while also reducing the amount of boilerplate in both the library implementation and the user-facing API. Achieving parity with the C API is no small task. In this talk, I will go over the overall approach to solving the problem, review the current state of the library (basic clients are already possible!), and chart a course to a complete native Rust API for PipeWire. I will also take a detour into the challenges of using Rust for a low-level system library, such as reconciling the PipeWire API's object lifecycle with Rust's ownership and lifetime system.

Creation date: Oct. 24, 2025
Speakers: Arun Raghavan
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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