Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

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Le 03/03/2017 à 18:21, Matt Wette a écrit :
> > On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 2. How to make guile platform more successful?
> > I this case, let me ask a question, if we have guile-python3
> > (compatible with most of Python3 features), and provide more
> > convenient FFI helper function to help bind more libraries in short
> > time, is it possible to attract more people from Python land? Given
> > we'll have good JIT compiler in the future.
> Now that the C preprocessor in NYACC/C99 is more robust I could start looking 
> at generating some sort of  “FFI helper” functionality.  I have been thinking 
> about this problem on and off for a while.  Completely automating things might 
> be tough, but a “helper” would probably go a long way.
>
> Matt
Are you aware of scheme-bytestructures [0] that's what we are using
in guile-git. If you target that API to wrap C structs, it would be helpful.

[0] https://github.com/TaylanUB/scheme-bytestructures