SWIG VS CPython

Compare SWIG vs CPython and see what are their differences.

SWIG

SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. (by swig)

CPython

The Python programming language (by python)
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SWIG CPython
25 1303
5,463 59,047
1.2% 1.7%
9.8 10.0
1 day ago 4 days ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SWIG

Posts with mentions or reviews of SWIG. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-18.

CPython

Posts with mentions or reviews of CPython. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SWIG and CPython you can also consider the following projects:

RustPython - A Python Interpreter written in Rust

cffi

CppSharp - Tools and libraries to glue C/C++ APIs to high-level languages

Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler

djinni

JavaCPP - The missing bridge between Java and native C++

JNA - Java Native Access

ipython - Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.

Vulpix - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for .NET core inspired by express.js

libffi - A portable foreign-function interface library.

PyCUDA - CUDA integration for Python, plus shiny features

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code