What a wonderful excuse to dive back into Clojure! This looks fantastic. I wonder what neat stuff might be made in Clojure thanks to a C FFI that wasn’t doable on top of the JVM.

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pjmlp a day ago | parent | next [-]

Note that nowadays with Panama, there are more FFI opportunities in JVM implementations as well.

Although it is rather verbose, and it is easier to have a C header and run jextract on it, instead of the manual boilerplate.

No idea how well AI tooling would manage.

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ramblurr a day ago | parent [-]

Coffi is a great library that makes Panama FFI/FFM painless without interop. https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi

For example look at this arc from sqlite4clj https://github.com/andersmurphy/sqlite4clj/blob/master/src/s... it's very elegant.

(Also can plug my own libvips wrapper using coffi https://github.com/outskirtslabs/vips)

Using FFI/FFM "vanilla" with java interop is also viable, and in my experience the SOTA models do just fine with it (with or without jextract).

	▲	pjmlp a day ago \| parent [-]
		Great overview, thanks!

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busterarm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been diving back into Clojure just recently and this will be something I'll be trying to use immediatley.