Re:Deciding to rewrite getaddrinfo in rust
by Manishearth on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:00PM
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> It's the lingua franca for describing libraries, and tooling (such as Rust's bindgen, or Python's cffi) can consume them to do the setup/create the information necessary to call functions from other languages.
Hence the "not necessarily" in my comment. The parent seemed to be painting this as extra unnecessary work; I was saying that a header file is _not_ necessary except for binding to C/C++.
If you want to write a C API that will be called from many languages; you should have a header file so that bindgen tools can consume it. If you want an API that will only be called by Python .... not so necessary, you may want a header file anyway but it depends on the situation.
Hence the "not necessarily" in my comment. The parent seemed to be painting this as extra unnecessary work; I was saying that a header file is _not_ necessary except for binding to C/C++.
If you want to write a C API that will be called from many languages; you should have a header file so that bindgen tools can consume it. If you want an API that will only be called by Python .... not so necessary, you may want a header file anyway but it depends on the situation.
> Or... C?
Sure, goes without saying :)