Meet tailscale-rs, our new Rust library preview

Tailscale has introduced a preview of tailscale-rs, a Rust library version of its network software, designed to allow developers to integrate Tailscale into applications across various programming languages beyond Go, including Python, Elixir, and C. This initiative aims to overcome the limitations of the existing libtailscale, which relies on a Go runtime and can cause conflicts with other language runtimes. Rust was chosen for its memory safety, speed, and lack of an opinionated runtime, making it ideal for integrating Tailscale into diverse software environments while maintaining performance and security. Though still in its early stages with basic functionality, tailscale-rs plans to expand features like peer-to-peer communication and NAT traversal, and the Tailscale team encourages user feedback to guide future development.