Re: [dylan] The Future of Dylan: What do we use it for?

Our commercial MPS client, Configura, whose compiler is influenced by Open Dylan, has a C++ API without C wrappers, but it does involve a lot of restrictions.

On 2014-09-09, at 06:04, Scott McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW, even inside of Google, C++ is not directly wrapped. You write C wrappers first, then export those wrappers for FFI use by, eg, Lisp or Python. "Nobody" supports FFI over C++. 
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> --Scott 
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>> On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> C++ would be pretty difficult / a lot of work. The process of wrapping C APIs could be better though. As you say, we could use libclang to implement parts of melange. That's a decent amount of work, but doable.
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