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Advantages of Rust for Orthanc Plugin Development

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Jennings Zhang
Research Developer @ Boston Children's Hospital
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Orthanc is an open-source PACS server written in C++ with an extensive interface for plugin development. Here we announce orthanc_sdk, a library for developing Orthanc plugins in safe and idiomatic Rust. This article explains why Rust is a good language for Orthanc plugin development and the design of the orthanc_sdk crate.