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		chasil 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) In pieces of my code, I need to call setuserid() to manage some of the security that I designed in 2010. There was no Rust at that point, and I used the most basic tool that could do it. Could I have done this in Java with gymnastics of JNI, linking C into the JRE? Definite maybe.

pjmlp 6 days ago [–]

Yes, nowadays with Panama, and before Rust was around, JNA was already there so using JNI wasn't strictly necessary.

direwolf20 6 days ago | [–]

JNA is a whole dependency of its own, shame it's not built into the JRE

pjmlp 6 days ago | | [–]

It is nowadays, that is what Panama is for.

Unless one is stuck with Android Java, Google's J++.

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