Discuss foreign programming language interop tools and libraries

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• Boost.Python
• V8

[Morwenn]

There is a new C++11 alternative to Boost.Python that seems rather popular: pybind11. As many things, I didn't try to use it but it might be of interest.

[nabijaczleweli]

@rightfold By "foreign language interop" you mean i18n or UTF-8 kinda stuff?

[milleniumbug]

No, look at the context. It obviously means programming language interop.

[nabijaczleweli]

Ah.

[ghost]

What are the states of lua binders? We need one for the list.

[no-longer-on-githu-b]

Well, Sol is still undocumented and full of special cases, so we'll have to find an awesome one instead.

[nabijaczleweli]

How about @ThePhD's Sol2?

[ThePhD]

@Morwenn is right introducing pybind11: it's way better than Boost.Python (and has the benefit of being specific to its domain and thus not encumbered with any of the usual old-old-old compiler workarounds usually demanded of boost libraries).

Sol2 is going to undergo improvement and documentation over the course of the next 4 months. I'll post back here when sol v2.0.0 is "Loungesome Ready".

[milleniumbug]

@ThePhD Is it now?

[ThePhD]

It's ready. :D https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4a8gy7/sol2_lua_c_binding_framework/ https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2

[Morwenn]

On the other hand:

[...] actually used AND appreciated in the industry [...]

[nabijaczleweli]

Somebody uses it (because it's good), and we (industry) appreciate it

[milleniumbug]

Well, since this list is a Lounge project, I thought this list was a list of projects with Lounge Seal of Quality.

Why? Well, it's mostly the loungers who vote there, I can't speak for the entire industry.

[ThePhD]

Used in the industry before I even released:

http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/28817701#28817701

And there are many, many more individuals in the pool.

[Bulat-Ziganshin]

Sorry, but he said about Sol1. Or you just kidding? :)

[nabijaczleweli]

Lines between Sol and Sol2 are blurry, because one evolved from the other

[ThePhD]

Sol2 is meant to supersede Sol in every way, the only reason it's called Sol2 is because I had thought the original project maker abandoned the project and wanted nothing to do with it, so I went my own way.

After release day, he told me that he was going to give me push access to the original repo... but I had no way of knowing that, and with getting the impression they didn't want anything to do with it, I never asked. :/

[nabijaczleweli]

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