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		plorkyeran on July 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Pyt... C++ makes maintaining ABI compatibility quite difficult, so in practice libraries with a C++ interface tend to default to requiring that anyway.

frankzinger on July 8, 2014 [–]

Yes, it's difficult by default, but the solution is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque_pointer and it is quite well-known in the C++ world.

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