The Racket Foreign Interface

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

# The Racket Foreign Interface

by Eli Barzilay

> The `ffi/unsafe` library enables the direct use of C-based APIs within Racket programs—without writing any new C code. From the Racket perspective, functions and data with a C-based API are foreign, hence the term foreign interface. Furthermore, since most APIs consist mostly of functions, the foreign interface is sometimes called a foreign function interface, abbreviated FFI.

Find out more at https://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign

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