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Previous summary of this article, from a thread with otherwise no activity and with an author that no longer posts on HN, said more elegantly than I could dream of saying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047559

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The author is still active, here. The author is not really a lisper, just a normal polyglot, who happens to like lisp.

Beware that the standard libffi was written for Visual Basic. Which has one of the easiest FFI's. Did I write that? Forgot.

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I was talking about mahmud, actually, the user who summed up your article.

Thanks for the article!