C/C++ interop

[mateodif]

One of Clojure's main benefits include being able to interop with the native underlying environment that it's running on: Clojure interops with the JVM, Clojure CLR with .NET, ClojureScript with JavaScript and so on.
It would be very interesting to be able to interop with C++.

Jank has C++ interop that looks like this:

(defn string? [o]
  (native/raw "__value = make_box(#{ o }#->as_string() != nullptr)"))

You can read more about it here.

[Zelex]

Was planning on doing this first through native library hooks. dlopen, dlsym, dlclose etc hooks. Its a ways off though.

Then later theoretically you could write C/C++ code in your clj itself and it would compile it to a .so file and use the above methods to automatically hook into it.

This is all in theory of course.

[Zelex]

Something like

(native/c++
int foo(int bar) {
return bar*2;
}
)

Is possible, but I'd have to build a C++ parser into the program, which I really don't want to do.

Putting the code inside a string is icky too because what if you need a string inside that string, then your escaping all over and f' that.

You could do something like C++ Raw strings, which is probably the more reasonable approach.