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C Foreign Function Interface

The C calling convention and binary interface that most operating systems and language runtimes can already call, making it the usual meeting point for code written in different languages.

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  • C ABI
  • C FFI

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FFI refactoring draws the Rust boundary around a single Python function

Discord staff engineer Lily Mara argues full rewrites regenerate bugs the old code had already fixed, so she replaces functionality one function at a time across the C ABI. The published transcript makes the case for the method before it shows a number.

Publishers:infoq.com

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