On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 16:41, Jacob Faibussowitsch <jacob....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Please don't take my words as advocacy for C++ > > I’m going to pretend like I didn’t read this :) > Whatever the final decision is, PETSc should keep providing a plain C API. C is lingua franca, C++ is not. Many other programming languages have runtime FFIs mostly based on the C ABI guarantees (Java, Python, MATLAB, Rust, Julia, etc). C++ may be great for development, but I do not consider it great for crossing language boundaries. Maybe the right approach for petsc4py is to first get nice and modern C++ bindings implemented by wrapping the C interface. And then map these C++ bindings to Python. -- Lisandro Dalcin ============ Senior Research Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/
