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Has P/Invoke been cross-platform for a decade? Additionally, does it parse C headers to create native type wrappers automatically? Last I checked (a long time a

• sanxiyn 5y ago
  Yes, P/Invoke has been working cross-platform for a decade with Mono. Have you heard of this thing called Gtk#? P/Invoke does not parse C headers, but neither does this proposal.
  • royjacobs 5y ago
    Ah right, Mono. I keep forgetting that was a thing. This proposal will pave the way for jextract, though. I would argue this series of JEPs is much closer in spirit to something like Rust's cxx than P/Invoke is.
    • sanxiyn 5y ago
      No it isn't. As _old_dude_ pointed out, this is a runtime API that generates JIT wrappers. Rust's cxx does no runtime code generation, while P/Invoke does.
      • royjacobs 5y ago
        I was not talking about runtime vs compile time, I was talking about how you interact with it as an end user.