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interoperability
api needs to facilitate easy interoperability with other languages and tools, for that certain considerations are taken:
- number of public api calls is kept at the minimum
- procedure parameters can only use basic types, no aggregates, with exception of Vec/Matrix types and alike, with no new additions, ever (see /include/twn_types.h)
- optionals can be expressed via pointer passage of value primitives, assumed immutable, with the NULL expressing default value
- no opaque types, only keys if needed
- pointers to pointers aren't allowed
- when mutation on input is done, - it shouldn't be achieved by a mutable pointer, but the return value
- return value could be a simple aggregate that is translatable to a dictionary of primitives
- module prefix is used for namespacing, actual symbols come after the prefix (
<module>_<symbol>
) - symbols should not contain numerics at the start nor after the namespace prefix
- 32 bit floating point is the only numeric type
- /include/twn_api.json file is hand-kept with a schema to aid automatic binding generation and tooling