cffi VS cl-parametric-types

Compare cffi vs cl-parametric-types and see what are their differences.

cffi

The Common Foreign Function Interface (by cffi)

cl-parametric-types

(BETA) C++-style templates for Common Lisp (by cosmos72)
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cffi cl-parametric-types
16 1
412 43
2.7% -
4.0 0.0
5 days ago almost 6 years ago
Common Lisp Common Lisp
MIT License -
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cffi

Posts with mentions or reviews of cffi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
  • A few newbie questions about lisp
    4 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 21 May 2023
    When you want to do anything that breaks the nice bubble of your Lisp image, you might want to know a bit about your operating system's programming interface. This will come in handy if you ever need to wrap a library with CFFI. There are some things that are pretty inconvenient as a rule (like dealing with any protocol that uses network byte order), but if you stay within the bubble of your Lisp image, you won't really notice them.
  • *UPDATE* - CL-OBJC
    3 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 6 Mar 2023
    I'm just posting the work that I have done over the last year or so on CL-Objc. I'm still blocked from better support (e.g., passing structs by value for frameworks like UIKit). I just wanted to post what I have done online for others interested in the work or motivated to collaborate on this.
  • Waiting on feedback - CFFI PR
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 2 Mar 2023
    Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I have been waiting on some feedback for PR in CFFI. This feature is blocking me from reviving CL-OBJC. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
  • Programming the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins using Common Lisp?
    5 projects | /r/lisp | 1 Feb 2023
    Maybe access the pins using CFFI, https://github.com/cffi/cffi package and one the libraries mentioned here? https://www.bigmessowires.com/2018/05/26/raspberry-pi-gpio-programming-in-c/
  • Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2022
  • interested in learning lisp, (specifically for games, but also for everything else including tui and gui applications for linux. currently have next to no programming knowledge, can i get forwarded some resources and some tips on what exactly i should do? any videos i should watch?
    17 projects | /r/lisp | 23 Jun 2022
    C: Alternatively (more difficult) you could try to wrap the underlying C layers of either of those mentioned under Python with CFFI. The C-based game engine, Raylib, is also wrappable this way. I finished a super cool walking simulator in CL with that, but it is more tedious than the others since raylib is really barebones.
  • Common Lisp
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2021
    I feel inspired to start Lisp after being disappointed with the "open" source scene of 2021. I'd rather pay LispWorks a yearly fee and be left alone than dealing with unbalanced people in the Python space. The free Lisp implementations also look somewhat isolated from the ideological wars.

    However, a C interface is required. Is this one the recommended solution? Is it really portable?

    https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/

    What is the speed compared to a Python C extension? Are implementation-specific C interfaces faster (I guess they are)?

    Sorry for so many questions, but these can usually only be answered by people who have actually used the interface.

  • Which Lisp for C/C++ interop?
    2 projects | /r/lisp | 30 Sep 2021
    Every Lisp includes an FFI (Foreign Function Interface) which allows it to interface with any C library. CFFI is a library that sits on top of that FFI so that your code is portable across all Lisp implementation. CFFI supports the following list, so I guess it's the answer to your question:
    2 projects | /r/lisp | 30 Sep 2021
    Or you can pick this lib in order to not be dependent on some specific implementation: https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
  • A Hybrid OS
    2 projects | /r/chromeos | 10 Jul 2021
    So now you've decided that using system libraries via FFI is "not a real program" as well. So much for OCaml, Golang, Common Lisp, and basically any other language that isn't C or C++. I called it in my other comment:

cl-parametric-types

Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-parametric-types. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cffi and cl-parametric-types you can also consider the following projects:

cl-autowrap - (c-include "file.h") => complete FFI wrapper

go-ffi - Go bindings to libffi

racket - The Racket repository

trial - A fully-fledged Common Lisp game engine

paip-lisp - Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"

cl-cookbook - The Common Lisp Cookbook

specialization-store - A different type of generic function for common lisp.

go - The Go programming language

polymorphic-functions - A function type to dispatch on types instead of classes with partial support for dispatching on optional and keyword argument types.

julia - The Julia Programming Language

dense-arrays - Numpy like array object for common lisp

awesome-lisp-companies - Awesome Lisp Companies