Chapter 21

Integration with Other Languages

Knowing how to write a C program or library can be more valuable than you might expect. Due to the important role of C in developing operating systems, C is not limited to its own world. C libraries have the potential to be loaded and used in other programming languages as well. While you are reaping the benefits of writing code in a higher-level programming language, you can have the rocket power of C as a loaded library inside your language environment.

In this chapter we are going to talk more about this, and demonstrate how C shared libraries can be integrated with some well-known programming languages.

In this chapter, we will cover the following key topics:

  • We discuss why integration is possible ...

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