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22nd September 2007 - Link Blog

Hello JS-CTYPES, Goodbye Binary Components. Mark Finkle is porting Python’s ctypes functionality to the Mozilla platform, to allow binary XPCOM components to be defined in pure JavaScript.

Posted 22nd September 2007 at 11:57 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd September 2007.

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