I'm experiencing a rare déjà vu.
As in the dev part of my career is, again, slowly expanding, from encompassing just the realm of C++ before, to now building JavaScript wrappers over it, enabling more and more people access the sacred performance of The Language.
It’s almost like my Java/JNI stint 2.5 years ago, but a lot better actually. Better because JavaScript is in fact a relatively good language to wrap C++ into, at least once the initial blockers are behind.
If all goes well, I’ll be generating (DSL, *.inl) C++ as part of the build step some time in the next few weeks, after which point shipping C++ code as npm modules, bundled with their TypeScript interfaces, may well become my second C++ nature, as long as the tasks I have to work on these days allow us to explore this direction.
Links: experiments, and my clean repo with example usage.
Fun times.
