coffi

Coffi is a great library that makes Panama FFI/FFM painless without interop. https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi For example look at this arc from sqlite4clj https://github.com/andersmurphy/sqlite4clj/blob/master/src/s... it's very elegant. (Also can plug my own libvips wrapper using coffi https://github.com/outskirtslabs/vips) Using FFI/FFM "vanilla" with java interop is also viable, and in my experience the SOTA models do just fine with it (with or without jextract).

Coffi [1] built on java 22 (project panama) C FFI. Makes binding to C from Clojure a lot of fun. - [1] https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi

Honestly, Project Panama seems much more promising for interop with the C ABI from the Java platform. This is anecdotal, but a lot of commercial Clojure projects seem to have a small JNI-using library that nobody dares to touch with a 10 ft. pole lest something in it breaks and debugging is tedious, if possible at all. I've been eagerly waiting for the release of Java 21 since it means projects like coffi[1] can be used in a stable release of Java, and the API is honestly much more ergonomic than dealing with SWIG and using JNI directly. [1] https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi