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In what way does Lua interact with the outside world? Are you referring to it being embeddable, or the FFI in luajit2? Also, in what way does Swift work with t

In what way does Lua interact with the outside world? Are you referring to it being embeddable, or the FFI in luajit2? Also, in what way does Swift work with the outside world? It seems to be locked in pretty tightly in its own little world?

scythe 12y ago
>In what way does Lua interact with the outside world? Lua's C API allows Lua programs to bind to any C library. It's probably better at this than anything else out there, and there have been some attempts at really ambitious things like automatically generated Qt bindings: https://github.com/mkottman/lqt https://github.com/mkottman/lqt >in what way does Swift work with the outside world? Swift uses the Objective-C runtime. It interoperates with Objective-C very well and is designed to do so; by definition this means it also interoperates with C quite well. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)#Libraries.2C_runtime_and_development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)#Li...