Re: Oddities with dynamic modules

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Convenience is not a design goal of the module API. The primary design
> > goals are robustness, stability, simplicity, and minimalism.
>
> I thought simplicity and convenience of use tramps simplicity of the
> implementation, so it is strange to read arguments to the contrary.
> IME, inconvenient interfaces are the main reason for them being
> unstable, but that's me.

A good middle ground is a minimalistic (but sufficient) API at the
host side, plus idiomatic convenience wrapper libraries for each
client language. (The latter need not be maintained by the host API
maintainer.)