Re: Question about SWIG

Hello,

I find the question a bit confusing, or maybe backwards. Use swig *when*
you *do* have a use case for it?

Anyways, amongst other reasons, it allows you to write a C or C++ library
*once*, while still making it available to users of other languages
(Python, Ruby, etc).

   - You guarantee the same behavior and implementation regardless of the
   target language
   - Using C / C++ allows you to maximize performance (your mileage may
   vary depending on your implementation of course...)
   - Your users are happy as they don't need to reimplement it (potentially
   with far worse performance too) to use it in their target language. Your
   users might need your library for a tiny portion of their workflow, so it's
   definitely not an option for them to switch their entire stack to C++ just
   to use it.

A random example: CoolProp <http://coolprop.org/#environments-supported>, a
scientific library to figure out thermophysical properties / psychrometrics
conditions. You can use it in C++ directly, but also in Python, C#, MATLAB,
Modelica, etc.

Best,
Julien

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Le mar. 27 juin 2023 à 12:09, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <
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> Subject: Question about SWIG
>
> Good day from Singapore,
>
> In what scenarios do I need to connect programs written in C and C++
> with a variety of high-level programming languages?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thank you.
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