Comment by thadt
4 days ago
I get that reference! Having done this with Lua and C++, it’s easy to do, but just tedious repetition. Something that Swig could handle, but it adds so much extra code, plumbing and overall surface area for what amounts to just a few lines of glue code per function that it feels like overkill. I can definitely see the use for a bespoke code generator for something like that.
To be pedantic, OP wasn't referencing anything in the usual sense that we use it in (movie, comic, games references). They were more speaking from personal experience. In that sense, there's nothing to "reference" as such.