On 12/04/2017 10:54 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:43 +0100, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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JNI itself isn't hard to work with, its mapping classes for D easily
to
it which is hard. Especially when inheritance comes into play.
JNI is on notice for being retired, but clearly this is Java so
sometime next century. The replacement won't be here for a while, but
it will be here.
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/191
Considering it was created in 2014, I think we're safe implementing
extern(JNI) support either which ways.
Although a little strange since nobody has completed a full JNI
implementation yet!