Native add-on ABI

[voodooattack]

A native-addon ABI and a build system for the package manager should be proposed.

Please use this issue to discuss this aspect of the project.

[screeny05]

How about N-API or something compatible to it?

[voodooattack]

N-API looks perfect. I think it can be adapted to Nexus with some modifications. Thanks for bringing it up!

[mean-ui-thread]

Facebook's react-native also uses JSCore, and implemented some jschelpers here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/ReactCommon/jschelpers which heavily depends on their https://github.com/facebook/folly library. I'm not saying that it is a good option, but maybe they have something in there that might give you some good ideas

[mean-ui-thread]

found this https://github.com/charto/nbind

[mean-ui-thread]

this is for emscripten-only, but the api/concept might be worth studying: http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/connecting_cpp_and_javascript/embind.html

The emscripten team were toying with the idea of deprecating embind in favor of using nbind:
emscripten-core/emscripten#4770
However, due to large feature gap, they decided to not do it.

[mean-ui-thread]

also found an experimental n-api implementation for emscritpen
https://github.com/RReverser/emnapi