notes.md

Language Bindings

Notes on SWIG

There is SWIG, but from extremely shallow online searching,

• for python, compared to Boost.Python, C++ devs find it advantageous to use Boost.Python instead of SWIG for performance and fluency/idiom reasons (link).
• for the web, SWIG doesn't seem to support running the output in a browser (link).

WASM and JS

• the cmake preset "dev" inherits the toolchain preset's condition. If this gets implemented, we can make use of it to have a clean solution.

• emscripten links and things for future reference

  • cmake -S . --preset dev.emscripten
  • conan and emscripten
  • compiling
  • EmBind vs WebIDL Binder
    • I'll use embind
    • embind
  • the JS module object
  • why aren't compare_three_way_result and things like is_neq found? I can clearly see them declared in emscripten/upstream/lib/c++/v1/compare

Python

• Oh boy. There's a pybind11 successor: https://github.com/wjakob/nanobind

• PyBind11

  • based on Boost.Python. Seems people think well of it and like it a bit more than Boost.Python.
  • Has the advantage that I don't need to pull in all of boost just to get this.

• creating a setup.py

• Boost.Python

  • reducing compiling time

Java

not yet confirmed to be on roadmap.

• There's JNI.
• Java 19 has something new