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iceytomatoes t1_jbaw9rn wrote

Reply to comment by lurgi in I made a library that allows you to run functions from any language, in any language. by Zealousideal_Crazy46

i understand it gets a little complicated depending on what's being returned, but for returning values wouldn't it be feasible to wrap that in an input()?

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lurgi t1_jbawg6k wrote

If what you are returning can easily be represented as a string, I suppose you could.

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ragtagthrone t1_jbbla1i wrote

So in theory you could stringify any object and return that as long as you have a deserialization step to handle it.

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lurgi t1_jbbp5gi wrote

Then you'd need to modify the C/C++ code so that it doesn't return a Widget type or whatever and instead serializes the data in such a way that it can be deserialized by the caller.

At this point it's just FFI with me doing all the work. Plus, every time a function is called with different arguments, the C compiler is invoked (this also means whoever is running the code will need a C compiler installed, which seems like a big ask).

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