Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi,
>>
>> > We will discuss the GRASP API >
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-liu-anima-grasp-api-03) in Chicago.
>>
>> > One related topic is how to map this API into C, which is perhaps
>> the > most fundamental mapping.
>>
>> As someone who writes lots of C, I am not convinced this is a useful
>> exercise.
> Can you explain? If you're arguing that no ASAs will be written in C,
> that's defensible, but maybe that isn't your argument?
I think that ASAs that are written in C will be written in that language for
reasons of extreme constraints. As such, they won't bother with a
library/API. It will all be statically initialized globals and other stuff.
(Go read the Contiki code for an example of what I mean...)
Everyone else will write their ASAs in a higher level language: python, ruby,
perl, java, scala, *go*, maybe rust. The really hard thing about the C api
is that doesn't deal well with indefinites like intents...
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Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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