On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:23 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <
dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> It could be improved a bit, but the real issue is that JavaScript is a
> high-level, garbage-collected, dynamic programming language, while C is
> a low-level, memory-unsafe, type-unsafe, statically compiled programming
> language.
>
> I have heard a few ideas floating around on how this could be improved,
> by using a radical redesign of js-ctypes based on asm.js/WebAsm, but at
> the moment, I don't think that anybody is working on it.
>

Reimplementing js-ctypes on top of TypedObjects would also work. But those
still aren't anywhere near being standardized, so it'll be a while until
that's a possibility.
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