Re: Java plugin phase out timeline

Ok my bad for pointing people in the wrong direction
How come js-ctypes is not recommended but child_process is although it's
marked as "Experimental" in the documentation. What does that even mean? A
next update could break the API or could it be removed in a new build?

Anyways thanks for the information

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> On 2/24/2016 12:25 PM, Mikael Haltali wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> the best solution currently is js-ctypes which enables you to build an
>> extension that calls a custom dll written in C
>>
> To repeat what Chris Peterson wrote, we strongly discourage use of
> JS-ctypes is new code: it is very difficult to write code which is
> memory-safe. We strongly encourage everyone to use a separate process and
> communicate with pipes  using system/child_process or the future
> WebExtensions.
>
> --BDS
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>