Ask HN: Programming library that allows you to call libraries from any language?

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I saw in a comment thread here a few weeks ago a library that allows you to call library functions from any programming language from any other programming language. I believe it was using WASM or some other kind of translation framework. I want to play around with it and see if it is practical. I believe the name of the software began with "d". Does anyone know it?

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There's Dylibso's Extism, a WebAssembly plugin system. The company building it begins with D. https://www.dylibso.com/products/extism/

Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface

no, its not that, its a whole language agnostic programming library. the code example was like this:

#python code

import ffi_like_interface as ffi_like

jquery = ffi_like.transpile_js_library('jquery') json = jquery.call("function(args)") use_in_python(json)

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