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by tibordp
1389 days ago
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Totally agreed about FFI. I wanted to make it easy to interop with C code and write expressive bindings. Check for example the language bindings to LLVM's C API (fairly low level) and Tree-Sitter which is used internally (a bit higher level bindings) https://github.com/tibordp/alumina/tree/master/libraries/llv... https://github.com/tibordp/alumina/blob/master/libraries/tre... I think UFCS makes it quite nice for bindings, since external C functions can be used as if they were methods if the object is passed as the first parameter. So in many cases there might not even be a need to write wrapper structs for bindings that feel native. Of course, it's still a manual process and since Alumina is just a compiler and stdlib for now (no llibrary ecosystem, no compiler driver), it's a bit cumbersome. But I like the approach Rust has with bindgen and cc crates, to automatically create bindings for C and C++ code. |
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