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by jacobwilliamroy 2310 days ago
And if the library is not easy to port, then writing an interface which generates code that DOES work with that library is easy to do.
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I still disbelieve.

I've done this. I've seen other people do this. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it works fine for the demo but then has weird failure modes that you trip over in production months later.

It may be the right thing to do. It may be feasible. But a general "10 minute job" estimate is laughable.