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		blueblob on Jan 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'm Betting On Julia How does Julia interface with C? Is it easy to interface Julia with C because all it does is compile the C with Clang/LLVM?

astrieanna on Jan 23, 2014 [–]

Julia does not compile the C code; it links against shared libraries. It helps that Julia types can model C structs easily.

Manual entry on calling C: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/calling-c-and-for...

Blog post on passing Juila callback functions to C code: http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/callback/

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