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by all_factz 1261 days ago
Trying to understand: what’s to prevent someone from calling an FFI-defined function on a free type without going through the whole linear types rigmarole? E.g. could I call `fopen` and `fclose` directly to circumvent the whole `File` interface?

I’m sure there’s a good answer. This is a really cool and impressive project.

EDIT: Ah, just got to the section on "The FFI Boundary". Makes sense!