Modern languages

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:34:07 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> gem at rellim.com said:
> > I agree, way too much work.  I would leave OS compat #ifdefs as
> > they are. Partly because testing an alternative would be a pain.  A
> > few things could be combined using POSIX.   
> 
> My comment about a different module for each OS/environment was
> assuming we were working with a modern language without #ifdefs.

I do not know any modern language that would need this.

Do you?

> Another approach would be to implement droproot in c where we can use 
> #ifdef.  That assumes our new wonderful modern language has a
> reasonable way to call c code.

FFI seems to work well now.  But dropping root causes as many problems
as it selves.  If/when it becomes an issue I would propose a different
approach.

RGDS
GARY
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