From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Oddities with dynamic modules
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:04:13 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XTv0JpWcUoJotegvXaU0qVf1qsaYDPB7wpv5QqY-hAKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tvhal45r.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Convenience is not a design goal of the module API. The primary design
> > goals are robustness, stability, simplicity, and minimalism.
>
> I thought simplicity and convenience of use tramps simplicity of the
> implementation, so it is strange to read arguments to the contrary.
> IME, inconvenient interfaces are the main reason for them being
> unstable, but that's me.
A good middle ground is a minimalistic (but sufficient) API at the
host side, plus idiomatic convenience wrapper libraries for each
client language. (The latter need not be maintained by the host API
maintainer.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 18:12 Oddities with dynamic modules Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-12 14:29 ` Kaushal Modi
2019-02-10 20:23 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-02-11 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-11 16:04 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2019-03-21 20:04 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-21 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 20:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-21 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 20:51 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-21 20:12 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-21 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 20:34 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-21 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 20:58 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-03-22 1:26 ` creating unibyte strings (was: Oddities with dynamic modules) Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 12:33 ` creating unibyte strings Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-24 14:51 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-03-24 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 1:47 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-03-25 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-26 10:23 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-03-26 11:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 8:20 ` Oddities with dynamic modules Eli Zaretskii
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