[Gardeners] Which FFI?

[Paolo Amoroso]

Steve Freitas <sflist at ihonk.com> writes:

> I'm fairly new to Lisp. Despite this (!), I'd like to provide an FFI
> interface to libevent (http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ ).
> However, there are a bunch of competing FFIs: CFFI, UFFI, Hello-C,
> Verrazano, etc., and I'm not sure which to use. High on my list of

I suggest CFFI.

UFFI provides a subset of the functionality of CFFI.  And Hello-C,
used by Kenny Tilton for his Cello project, evolved into, or inspired
the development of, CFFI.

As others have said, Verrazano is a FFI generator.


Paolo
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