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		angersock on March 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MuJS: an embeddable JavaScript interpreter The grand majority of programming language APIs do not use a stack-based API. Really, stack-based APIs are an exception in just about every way, but not in a good way. Um, what is the C ABI for invoking functions? :\|

xavel on March 17, 2015 [–]

Yes, of course. But that's ABI, not API.

angersock on March 17, 2015 | [–]

An ABI is the API a computer understands.

It makes a great deal of sense, especially when dealing with an interpreter for a stack-like machine, to expose language bindings in terms of that stack.

It's not super friendly, mind, but it makes perfect sense.

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