Introduction

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Lingfo is a library that allows you to run functions from other languages without needing to translate the code.

How it works

Lingfo compiles or interprets the code to create a runnable file which then can be executed, displaying the output in the terminal. Removing the translation step allows for code to run at its native language speed.

The idea

Lingfo is a FFI that works with any language.

In future, we want lingfo to work really from any language, to any language. To achieve this, we want to have lingfo being executed as a app when using other languages than python. So, for example, if we want to get C++ function in rust, to call the function (inside rust), the output file for lingfo would look like this:

use std::process::Command;

fn example() {
    Command::new("lingfopy")
            .arg("lib/main.hpp") // function path
            .arg("example") // function name
            .arg("arg1, arg2, arg3") // and some args for function to execute
            .spawn()
            .expect("lingfo error");
}

This might require a lot of optimization, configuration etc. But by using some not released yet lingfo apps this will be probally easier to do.