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fulafel on Aug 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and ...

I disagree that this is a FFI. There's are FFIs for Python, the builtin one is called ctypes, and users know it's an exception to Python's safety. Modules implemented in C++ and presenting functionality to Python programs in a native way are expected to be safe.

kazinator on Aug 26, 2017 [–]

Unless I'm mistaken, the topic is Pybind11, which is a foreign binding mechanism. Being criticized is the example in its documentation:

http://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/master/basics.html

under the heading "Creating bindings for a simple function".

Looks like FFI to me.

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