On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:09:12PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I'm with Antoine on this - we should be pushing folks writing > extension modules towards code generators like Cython, cffi, SWIG, and > SIP, support libraries like Boost::Python, or safer languages like > Rust (which can then be wrapped with cffi), rather than encouraging > more bespoke C/C++ extensions modules with handcrafted refcount > management. There's a reason the only parts of > https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/ that > have actually been filled in are the ones explaining how to use a tool > to write the extension module for you :)
They will be slower and in my experience not easier to maintain -- quite the opposite. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
