Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
>> How complicated is embedding going to be? I suspect it's going to be
>> more complicated than now in some ways, since interacting with a GC
>> engine is probably trickier than simply calling AddRef. At the same
>> time, environments that use GC, such as java, should have an easier time
>> avoiding leaks.
> 
> I believe that embedders should never see any of this: embedders should not
> use XPCOM any more, we should expose real platform-native embedding layers
> with a stable API.

Or an unstable API. It's what everyone else does. Stability arises 
through a "conversation" between producers and consumers, and over time 
increases, until there's a "big shift". This came up in face-to-face 
meetings, and we should hash it out.

New thread in .embedding, cross-posted here with followup-to: set?

/be
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