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RMS would never let practicality get in the way of ideology.

The GNU/RMS is best because you're free! (As long as your computing needs are a text editor, compiler, and some unix system utils)



That's why I believe their FFI plans are doomed.

We implemented FFI's for emacs over the last decades, but RMS always strongly opposed it, because you could call windows DLL's then. gtk-emacs e.g.


RMS is fine with an FFI as long as you cannot use it to inject non-free code. This is usually done by requiring an exported symbol saying that the code is GPL compatible. GCC does it this way:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugin-API.html


But you cannot call that a FFI then. A FFI is the abbrevation for "Foreign Function Interface", not "Friendly Function Interface". FFI's are not sugar coated.




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