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Re:Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ... by thethirdone on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:25AM (#22791105)
> I apologize for being ambiguous.

No need to apologize. I also should have been more clear about what I meant by strong interoperability.

> I was speaking about interfacing in the opposite direction.

I think that having really strong interoperability requires both directions, but the being called from C is the one that is more restrictive on fancy types.

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Re:Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ... by caspper69 on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:10AM (#22791748)
Unfortunately, C is C, and we all know what that means. Anything that achieves true type safety in both directions in going to be a monstrosity on the C side. Lots of boilerplate, marshalling of types, etc.

It all starts to look like COM, lol. Take care man.

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