[Numpy-discussion] Notes from the numpy dev meeting at scipy 2015

[Mark Wiebe]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:45:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Irwin Zaid <izaid at continuum.io> wrote:
> >
> > So, we see DyND is having a twofold purpose. The first is to expand upon
> the
> > kinds of data that NumPy can represent and do computations upon. The
> second
> > is to provide a standard array package that can cross the language
> barrier
> > and easily interoperate between C++, Python, or whatever you want.
>
> One possible limitation is that the lingua franca for language
> interoperability is C, not C++. DyND doesn't have to be written in C,
> but exposing a nice C API may help make it attractive to the various
> language runtimes out there.
>
> (even those languages whose runtime doesn't have a compile-time
> interface to C generally have some kind of cffi or ctypes equivalent to
> load external C routines at runtime)
>

I kind of like the path LLVM has chosen here, of a stable C API and an
unstable C++ API. This has both pros and cons though, so I'm not sure what
will be right for DyND in the long term.

-Mark


> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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