This is so sad! Compared to the other ones. We can...
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rholshausen
11/27/2024, 10:22 PMThis is so sad! Compared to the other ones. We can do better!
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Matt (pactflow.io / pact-js / pact-go)
11/27/2024, 11:00 PM
maybe it needs
pact-referencesome-intermediarypact_jvmy
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:41 PM
Lets just make the Java cohert move from Java 8 to 21 and FFI allthethings
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/foreign-function-and-memory-api.html
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rholshausen
11/27/2024, 11:42 PMJava has had FFI support since 1997
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:42 PM
They keep rebranding it
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:42 PM
JNI, JNA, there was Panama recently
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:43 PM
or different arms, same jumper, idk
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:44 PM
or is this now panama that is in j21?
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:45 PM
ahh they actually have arm64 binaries now for jextract
https://jdk.java.net/jextract/
annoyingly it was x64 at the time when I last looked
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rholshausen
11/27/2024, 11:45 PMJDK 21 change is more about safe functions and shared memory.
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
11/27/2024, 11:51 PM
ahh h'oki, that makes sense, I remember seeing the memory session used in panama but I didn't really tickle it much, just tried to do the bare minimum in the different java ffi interop modes
https://github.com/YOU54F/hello_ffi/blob/main/java/panama/Panama.java