Blog post on calling C from Python via D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 08:45:31PM +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 17:39:14 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 14:51:06 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > A lot of the comments were about how stupid I was for not just
> > > using ctypes or cffi. I tried today and both of them are horrible.
> > > As I say in the blog post below, either they didn't read the
> > > article (people on the internet commenting on things they didn't
> > > even read?  Shock! Horror!) or just aren't lazy enough.
> > > 
> > > My followup:
> > > 
> > > https://atilaoncode.blog/2020/02/26/seriously-just-use-d-to-call-c-from-python/
> > 
> > I basically just ignored any of the comments about ctypes or cffi
> > having looked at them briefly once like 5-10 years ago and throwing
> > up my hands. But I also throw up my hands a lot!
> 
> I didn't know anything about them last week, so I didn't think I could
> reply properly. After looking into them today I just shook my head a
> lot. It's incredible the lengths that people go to justifying their
> pre-existing beliefs. At this point, I don't know how to convince the
> masses if "nanomsg in Python in 4 lines of code" isn't enough!

Perhaps a side-by-side comparison of how clean the D version would look
vs how lousy the equivalent ctypes/cffi version is?  Just a thought.


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