[Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 April 2014 10:36, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>> This would be superficial, but change the perception of CFFI to be "a
>> preprocessor that produces C extension modules".
>
> Thanks, that clarification helps a lot. Does this mean that "API-mode"
> CFFI is competing with things like swig (which is not used much these
> days, as far as I know) and Cython (which is used a lot in the numeric
> community)? ("ABI-mode" CFFI is obviously directly competing with
> ctypes).

Yes.