Nim-FFI

Functionality §

1. Provides the core logic needed to expose any synchronous or asynchronous Nim library to a C-FFI library.

Usability §

1. Introduce new pragma definitions, such as {.ffi.}, to appropriately annotate types and procedures.
2. Any Nim project can use it and can be installed using Nimble, similarly to how nim-chronos is imported.
3. The interaction with the exposed C library can be done using JSON.

Reliability §

1. Nim-FFI does not leak memory.
2. The exposed C library never hangs when working asynchronously.

Performance §

Supportability §

1. The exposed C library can be used in Logos Core; on Linux, Mac and Windows.
2. The exposed C library can be used in Logos Core for mobile: iOS and Android.

+ (Privacy, Anonymity, Deployments) §

1. logos-messaging-nim repository uses nim-ffi.