Re:Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
by LegionMammal978 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:52AM
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I've asked around a bit, and so far I've found no language or tool that can directly access C++ libraries without manually writing bindings. I hope that can change sometime in the near future.
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Re:Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
by gavinray on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:33PM
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I know of two languages:
1. D (https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html)
2. Nim. Though this is a bit cheap because Nim is a frontend to C(++), so you're really writing C++ that calls other C++ when it boils down to it. See https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#implementation-specifi...
Re:Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
by pzo on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:03PM
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There is one -> Objective-C++ - interop is very seamless (just change file extension from .m to .mm). I do hope as well that will change and we will see some other languages speaking to c++ so easily.