[ANN] clj-native 0.8.1

[mac]

Hello all.
I have had some time lately to work on my C FFI for Clojure and I
think it's pretty much feature complete now.
It has support for functions, callbacks, structures, unions and
globals.
For structures there is support for different alignments.

The library has two main namespaces: clj-native.direct and clj-
native.dynamic.
The direct namespace uses the "direct mapping" feature of JNA in order
to be as efficient and arity and type safe as possible. However, it
does not support varargs functions since they require reflection and
dynamic translation of the parameters. That's what the dynamic
namespace is for: It can map any C function into clojure, even vararg
functions like printf but at a higher cost in call time and less
safety (it's easy to crash the jvm by sending the wrong type or number
of parameters). Access to global variables through the JNA Pointer
class is also available in the dynamic namespace.

The library is available from github: http://github.com/bagucode/clj-native
and clojars: http://clojars.org/clj-native

Example usage of the direct namespace can be found here:
http://github.com/bagucode/clj-native/blob/master/src/examples/c_lib.clj

Please report issues or make requests to my github account or by mail.

Enjoy!

/Markus

[mac]

After just a little more test and polish I plan on calling clj-native
1.0. But clj-native is a *really* boring name so I want to change it
before 1.0 and I don't have very good imagination when it comes to
these things.
So I need your help.
It doesn't have to have anything to do with anything, could just be
something that sounds funny, like sasquatch, that's a funny word.

Please help!

/Markus

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM, mac <markus.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After just a little more test and polish I plan on calling clj-native
> 1.0. But clj-native is a *really* boring name so I want to change it
> before 1.0 and I don't have very good imagination when it comes to
> these things.
> So I need your help.
> It doesn't have to have anything to do with anything, could just be
> something that sounds funny, like sasquatch, that's a funny word.

clj-baremetal ?

--
Ramakrishnan

[Garth Sheldon-Coulson]

I suggest prawn.
Garth

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[Adrian Cuthbertson]

You asked for it! What's the bet there are at least 50 responses to
your post. How about;
natty, nattle, clonat, or just nat.

-Rgds, Adrian.

[Meikel Brandmeyer]

aborigine

[Laurent PETIT]

pistil

2010/3/17 Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de>:
> aborigine

[David Nolen]

yodel

[pthatcher]

I can't believe no one has suggested:

Najure.

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[pthatcher]

I can't believe no one has suggested:

Najure.

[Wilson MacGyver]

hashi, means bridge in japanese

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[LauJensen]

Hey Markus,

Probably not what you want to hear, but I think great names are both
memorable and descriptive. Leaning on those criterias clj-native is
not bad at all.

Lau

[Joop Kiefte]

What about Clonure? Wordplay on Clone and leaving out the j ;)

2010/3/17 mac <markus.g...@gmail.com>:

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[Martin DeMello]

C-Foam

martin

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM, mac <markus.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Alexandre Patry]

>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:08 AM, mac <markus.gustavs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> After just a little more test and polish I plan on calling clj-native
>>> 1.0. But clj-native is a *really* boring name so I want to change it
>>> before 1.0 and I don't have very good imagination when it comes to
>>> these things.
>>> So I need your help.
>>> It doesn't have to have anything to do with anything, could just be
>>> something that sounds funny, like sasquatch, that's a funny word.

What about cocytus, the deepest level of hell in Dante's inferno. I
guess you cannot go lower level than that :) And it reflect the pain of
leaving clojure to write native code.

There are also the clo-cytus or clocytus variations.

Alexandre

[Edmund Jackson]

I love the reference, but I dunno dude, the word itself sounds venereal !

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"Do it with love, l-o-v-e"
MJ

[eyeris]

clj-segfault

j/k :)

Seriously though, thank you for working on this. I'm sure it will
remove a serious barrier to entry for some people.

[Zach Tellman]

how about 'patois' or 'creole'

[Frank Hale]

clojure + native = clotive

[Alexandre Patry]

Frank Hale wrote:
> clojure + native = clotive
>

or clo-jive, like clojure dancing with another language.

Alex

[caljunior]

brain dump coming up:

inclojenous

c-jure

cclojure

full-circle

c-no-free

brace-yourself

chickey (my favourite)

[David Andrews]

ffinagle

(Merriam-Webster says: to obtain by indirect or involved means, to
obtain by trickery, to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve
one's ends)

[Stuart Sierra]

On Mar 17, 3:08 am, mac <markus.gustavs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After just a little more test and polish I plan on calling clj-native
> 1.0. But clj-native is a *really* boring name so I want to change it
> before 1.0 and I don't have very good imagination when it comes to
> these things.

Personally, I much prefer library names that are descriptive rather
than creative. Give your kids cute names, not your libraries.

-SS