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Nim has an automated generator for C/C++ wrappers or translating from C. Also there are very easy ways to create Python modules in Nim: https://robert-mcdermo

• atilaneves 7y ago
  Thanks for the links. That's nice, but not the same - users have to intend to write a Python extension in Nim. With autowrap, you can call unmodified D code (and as shown in the blog, C code as well with dpp). That means code that was never meant for consumption from another language can be made available.
  • nimmer 7y ago
    You don't need to modify the code, just add a wrapper. Nothing prevents generating a wrapper automatically but 99% of the time that is not very useful. The large majority of Python extension contain Python-specific code to access or return Python objects or act in a pythonic way.
    • atilaneves 7y ago
      > You don't need to modify the code, just add a wrapper. Still not the same. > Nothing prevents generating a wrapper automatically but 99% of the time that is not very useful. The large majority of Python extension contain Python-specific code to access or return Python objects or act in a pythonic way. Except, and I cannot stress this enough, at work we're using this to succesfully call into D production code without any Python-specific anything. It just works. The article wasn't even about that, it's about making it work just as seamlessly for C.