On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Michael Clagett <[email protected]>wrote:
> As for integration, I can see from your description of Factor's host
> integration that we may indeed have different notions about this. Compared
> to Lisp or Scheme I'm sure that Factor comes out ahead, no doubt about it.
> When I speak about integration, however, I am talking about integration
> with mainstream computing runtimes -- like .NET's Common Language Runtime
> or J2EE <J@EE> -- an integration that would make it possible to use
> Factor fluidly and easily alongside such languages as Java and C#
>
That makes sense, Michael. Interop with mainstream managed platforms would
be great, but the interfaces for doing so are somewhat daunting. JNI is a
nightmare. I've heard rumors that CLR objects can interop through COM
interfaces, which we could potentially use through Factor's COM bridge, but
documentation is scarce—is the ABI used between native and CLR code by
C++/CLI documented anywhere? At any rate, the lack of finalizers or other
automatic resource management on the Factor side would still make managing
references to Java or C# objects inconvenient. It's definitely something
worth exploring deeper, though.
-Joe
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