Ffi Glossary

Browse 5 ffi terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Ffi Terms

C Interop
The ability of a programming language to call C functions and use C data types directly — often via a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) — enabling reuse of the...
Native Bridge
The interop layer in cross-platform frameworks like React Native that serializes calls between the JavaScript runtime and the native platform APIs...
Platform Invoke
A .NET feature (P/Invoke) that allows managed C# or VB.NET code to call unmanaged C/C++ functions exported from native DLLs by declaring the external function...
Rust Unsafe
A Rust keyword that unlocks five additional capabilities the compiler cannot verify: dereferencing raw pointers, calling unsafe functions (including FFI),...
Userdata
A Lua type that represents arbitrary C data stored as a raw memory block. Used to expose C structs and objects to Lua scripts when embedding Lua in a host...

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