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marcosdumay on June 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++'s Rule of Zero

Java is one of the least capable contenders at this point.

All those thousands of lines of C++ code, you can easily use them in any language you choose, except for Java.

GFK_of_xmaspast on June 28, 2015 [–]

It's actually reasonably easy, you just write a shim that can be linked as 'extern "C" {}' and then use jni. (I find it much easier than, for example, cython)

santaclaus on June 28, 2015 | [–]

This even works for Fortran.

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