What are the best open-source alternatives to Cffi?

Question 1

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7 open-source projects similar to cffi/cffi, ranked by shared features. Top picks: andy128k/cl-gobject-introspection, bohonghuang/cffi-object, bohonghuang/cffi-ops, islam0mar/cl-cxx-jit, jmckaskill/luaffi, rpav/cl-autowrap, sdilts/cl-bindgen.

Question 2

Is andy128k/cl-gobject-introspection a good alternative to Cffi?

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Common Lisp bindings to gobject-introspection.

Question 3

Is bohonghuang/cffi-object a good alternative to Cffi?

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A Common Lisp library that enables fast and convenient interoperation with foreign objects.

Question 4

Is bohonghuang/cffi-ops a good alternative to Cffi?

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A Common Lisp library that helps write concise CFFI-related code.

Question 5

Is islam0mar/cl-cxx-jit a good alternative to Cffi?

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Common Lisp and CXX interoperation  with JIT

Question 6

Is jmckaskill/luaffi a good alternative to Cffi?

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Standalone FFI library for calling C functions from lua. Compatible with the luajit FFI interface.

Question 7

Is rpav/cl-autowrap a good alternative to Cffi?

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Using its own facilities, autowrap now includes autowrap/libffi. This allows functions that pass and return structs to be called using autowrap. To use this, just load or :depends-on cl-autowrap/libffi instead of cl-autowrap:

Question 8

Is sdilts/cl-bindgen a good alternative to Cffi?

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A command line tool and library for creating Common Lisp language bindings from C header files.

Open-source alternatives to Cffi

andy128k/cl-gobject-introspection

bohonghuang/cffi-object

bohonghuang/cffi-ops

Islam0mar/CL-CXX-JIT

jmckaskill/luaffi

rpav/cl-autowrap

sdilts/cl-bindgen