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ref-napi
JavaScript2022–2022
node-ffi-napi / ref-napi

ref-napi

Turn Buffer instances into "pointers"

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What it is

Turn Buffer instances into "pointers"

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-07-16 19:51:24 UTC to 2022-07-17 00:16:22 UTC.

012022-07-16 19:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-16 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 16, 19:002022-07-16 20:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-16 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-16 21:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-16 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 16, 21:002022-07-16 22:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-16 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-16 23:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-17 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 17, 00:00

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Jul 16, 19:002022-07-16 19:00:00 UTC2022-07-16 20:00:00 UTC101
Jul 16, 20:002022-07-16 20:00:00 UTC2022-07-16 21:00:00 UTC000
Jul 16, 21:002022-07-16 21:00:00 UTC2022-07-16 22:00:00 UTC000
Jul 16, 22:002022-07-16 22:00:00 UTC2022-07-16 23:00:00 UTC000
Jul 16, 23:002022-07-16 23:00:00 UTC2022-07-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 17, 00:002022-07-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-17 01:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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capableweb·Jul 17, 2022
It seems like people have suggested multiple times to you to open a pull request with your suggested changes, rather than keeping them in your own repository. You asked for a merge in the comments too, but didn't address the concern regarding backwards-compatibility. The ball is in your court Edit: Your changes are also not cleaned up, https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/ref-napi/compare/latest...a... < includes adding a templating engine as well?
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