On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 08:45:31PM +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 17:39:14 UTC, jmh530 wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 14:51:06 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > A lot of the comments were about how stupid I was for not just > > > using ctypes or cffi. I tried today and both of them are horrible. > > > As I say in the blog post below, either they didn't read the > > > article (people on the internet commenting on things they didn't > > > even read? Shock! Horror!) or just aren't lazy enough. > > > > > > My followup: > > > > > > https://atilaoncode.blog/2020/02/26/seriously-just-use-d-to-call-c-from-python/ > > > > I basically just ignored any of the comments about ctypes or cffi > > having looked at them briefly once like 5-10 years ago and throwing > > up my hands. But I also throw up my hands a lot! > > I didn't know anything about them last week, so I didn't think I could > reply properly. After looking into them today I just shook my head a > lot. It's incredible the lengths that people go to justifying their > pre-existing beliefs. At this point, I don't know how to convince the > masses if "nanomsg in Python in 4 lines of code" isn't enough!
Perhaps a side-by-side comparison of how clean the D version would look vs how lousy the equivalent ctypes/cffi version is? Just a thought. T -- If it tastes good, it's probably bad for you.
