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Ask HN: Why aren’t libraries inter-callable by default?
10 by abrax3141 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Lisp is dead. Really dead this time. But it’s not bcs of the language, it’s bcs the libraries haven’t kept pace with, say, Python. But wouldn’t it be easy to write an “interface matcher” that would easily allow Lisp to call python libraries. (Obviously, replace Lisp and Pyhton with L1 and L2 - in fact you don’t even need L2 bcs all libraries could in theory be written to this FFAPI, so to speak, and then any language could call on all the best libraries and people could stop wasting time replicating libraries in every L1!?)

Lisp is dead. Really dead this time. But it’s not bcs of the language, it’s bcs the libraries haven’t kept pace with, say, Python. But wouldn’t it be easy to write an “interface matcher” that would easily allow Lisp to call python libraries. (Obviously, replace Lisp and Pyhton with L1 and L2 - in fact you don’t even need L2 bcs all libraries could in theory be written to this FFAPI, so to speak, and then any language could call on all the best libraries and people could stop wasting time replicating libraries in every L1!?)