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Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces (2004)

Author: metagame

Score: 36

Comments: 3

Date: 2021-11-30 05:26:00

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metagame wrote at 2021-11-30 06:55:45:

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

rurban wrote at 2021-11-30 11:07:49:

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.

metagame wrote at 2021-11-30 12:37:05:

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

Thanks for the article!