Ask HN: Glueing C/C++ with Perl/Python/Ruby

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Is there any better alternative than swig. There is large c/c++ code which I would like to use through Perl/Python/ruby.

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Recent(ish) versions of Python have the "ctypes" ffi module in the standard library, which is useful if your C/C++ code is compiled into a shared library and doesn't use any particularly esoteric ABI features.

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