Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by holy_city on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:51AM (#20326580)

I know it's a meme to say "C is not C++" but in this context C is really not C++. Calling into C through FFI is significantly easier than calling into C++. Very few languages have decent FFI with C++, while many have great support for C.

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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by firethief on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:11PM (#20327477)

> so it could be packaged up as a library that could be called from other languages.

What would this mean for C++, if not an `extern C` interface?

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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by holy_city on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:51PM (#20330107)

COM is an example

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