Why is the C code required?

zyedidia / SFML.jl

A binding of the game and multimedia library SFML for Julia

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Why is the C code required? #1

Closed IainNZ closed 9 years ago

IainNZ commented 9 years ago

Hey @zyedidia, I haven't done a deep dive into the code, but I was wondering why the C bindings are needed?

Looking forward to seeing a demo of a Julia-powered game at JuliaCon!

zyedidia commented 9 years ago

The C code is only required to support SFML events. Events in SFML are union types but passing union types between Julia and C is not currently supported, so the C code is necessary to pass the values through functions.

I'm glad to hear you're excited for my JuliaCon demo!