[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sat Apr 12 09:45:58 CEST 2014


Hi,

On 11 April 2014 19:55, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, that clarification helps a lot. Does this mean that "API-mode"
>> CFFI is competing with things like swig (which is not used much these
>> days, as far as I know) and Cython (which is used a lot in the numeric
>> community)? ("ABI-mode" CFFI is obviously directly competing with
>> ctypes).
>
> Yes.

Funny how a high-level shift --- not really changing anything under
the hood --- changes how we look at a project :-)


A bientôt,

Armin.


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